Exchange 2007 AutoForward / Redirect

[Andy Siegel]

This is a two part question. I have a user who wants to create a rule that
when a specific message comes in to her mailbox, it gets moved to a folder
and forwarded to an external e-mail address. It doesn't work. I believe
that feature is turned off in Exchange. I had an incident several years ago
where a user was autoforwarding to his AOL account. AOL mailbox gets full
and sends back an error message - instant loop! I know where it was in E2K3,
but not E2K7. Where do I check that.

Is there a way to allow this for specific clients, or is it a global
setting? If so, is there anything that would prevent a loop from occurring?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

For the location of the setting in Exchange 2007 see;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/automaticreply.htm

You could work with additional SMTP connectors and configure for which
domain and users they would work but you might be making your environment
more complex then.

If they set the proper exceptions in the rules, it should work as well;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/oooa.htm

Additionally you could drop certain emails by using Transport Rules.