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by shanghai sam

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Hi Folks,
I have an NT4/Exchange 5.5 system operating in a small business (mine). It is primarily there as a development resource so not really subject to normal procedures etc.

The Exchange Server currently reads all email for my Company (Whytec) and deposits the mail in appropriate boxes/folders.

I have now a need to accept all email from another group (global pop3 account) and perform a routing function. IE for incomming name1@group.com I would like to forward this to XYX@hotmail.com,etc. I'd also like to extend this to forwarding, say, committee@group.com to a distribution list.

I have succeeded in getting all of 'groups' email which is currently being forwarded to my administrator account (small traffic), so how do I complete the routing ???

PS You will have gathered I'm not really a net admin guy, I'm a developer with interest!

Hope someone can help
Regards
Trevor

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by duwaned

Hi Trevor.

The situation you have described is certainly not the ideal situation, but there may be a way to do this. Try it and let me know if it helped!

Login to a workstation with the account which owns the Administrator's mailbox which is receiveing all the mail. Create a profile in an e-mail client (preferably Outlook 2000!) for this mailbox. Using Outlook's rules wizard, you could probably set up rules in this mailbox to say something like if any mail arrives addressed to xyz@domain.com to forward it to xyz@hotmail.com. Set a rule up for each person which should receive the mail, and save the rules to the server. Setting up the rule could be tricky depending on how the mail is getting to the Administrator mailbox. Does it arriveaddressed to Administrator, or still addressed to the relevant person? If addressed to the person, then the rule should be easy. If addressed to Administrator, it will be more tricky but is still possible!

Regards.
Duwane

by estebandelatorre

Set a rule up for each person which should receive the mail, and save the rules to the server. Setting up the rule could be tricky depending on how the mail is getting to the Administrator mailbox.
Hope it helps!!

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