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I have been asked by my boss to creat a account that receives every mail that comes into the domain. Any way to set up an account to receive every undeliverable mail incase someone typed something wrong? Also befor I went to exchange 2000, I had Exchange 5.5 and was able to open up users inboxes from my outlook. Is that still possible with exchange 2000?.

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by dc1

You can setup a policy that CC's or BC's all mail to a specific mailbox. If you have Storage Group limits or alot of users this may not be the best solution. As long as your ID has the necessary rights to all users mailboxes you can proxy into them.

by rvickers78

But will it do that for only mail that is not delivered to a user or will it do it for everyone? I only want it for mail that can't be delivered to a user.

by brasslet

This functionality is not standard out-of-the-box in Exchange 2000. However, you could write an event sink to send inbound non-deliverables to a mailbox (sometime referred to as a "dead letter" mailbox), if you're reasonably handy with programming. This link may give you some ideas on what it takes to write an event sink: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/smtpevt/html/_smtpevt_protocol_event_interfaces.asp.

FYI: The above link may not paste well.

As far as opening other user's mailboxes in Exchange 2000, sure, it can be done. Unlike Exchange 5.5, though, there is no all-powerful service account that can open everything. In addition, Exchange 2000 explicitly prohibits Enterprise Administrators' access to mailboxes. The following link http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;268754 gives a step-by-step on how to assign the proper permissions.

by curlergirl

I think this is what you are looking for: Open the Exchange System Manager, double click Admin Groups/[site name]/Servers/[server name]/Protocols/SMTP. Right click on the name of your SMTP virtual server (usually Default SMTP Virtual Server unlessyou've changed it) and go to Properties. Go to the Messages tab and you'll see a field there to enter an email address to "Send copy of Non-Delivery Report to". Put in the email address of whatever local mailbox you want to receive the undeliverable reports. This sends to that email address a copy of every non-delivery report that is generated for incoming emails. Hope this helps!

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