Server side rule?

[Guest]

Hi all,

I thought what I was trying to do was fairly simple: all I want to do is
create a rule that resides on the server such that an e-mail sent from one of
2 web addresses, to any one of 6 internal e-mail addresses, is forwarded to
multiple accounts. What I tried creating the rule as myself and as the
administrator. I'm finding the only condition under which the rule fires is
if the e-mail is sent directly to the account that created the rule. I don't
want to have to create a seperate client rule for each possibility.

I've already been here:
http://www.slipstick.com/rules/serverbased.htm

It doesn't seem that what I'm trying to do falls under any of the client
restrictions listed here: I merely have after this message
arrives/from/forwaed it to as my conditions.

Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

It's not clear exactly what you're trying to do: Are the 6 internal email addresses each associated with a different user mailbox or are they all associated with the same mailbox?

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Sorry. The internal e-mail address are associated with different users.

So, to recap, an e-mail from one of 2 different web addresses can come into
any one of 6 different recipients: what I'd like to do is have the e-mail go
to all recipients no matter who received the e-mail.

I was hoping I could "interrupt" the e-mail at the server buy recognizing
the sender's e-mail, then forwarding to the 6 different recipients. Am I
hamstrung by the fact that a rule is recognized once a message is in the
folder in which the rule resides?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook rules run when the message arrives in the mailbox. You need to start Outlook six times -- each time with a profile pointing to the mailbox for one of the six different users -- and then create your rules on that mailbox.

"Interrupting the email at the server" would not involve Outlook rules at all, but would probably require programming an Exchange transport event sink. http://msdn.microsoft.com/exchange/

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

OK. Thanks very much for your input, Sue.

Outlook rules run when the message arrives in the mailbox. You need to start Outlook six times -- each time with a profile pointing to the mailbox for one of the six different users -- and then create your rules on that mailbox.

"Interrupting the email at the server" would not involve Outlook rules at all, but would probably require programming an Exchange transport event sink. http://msdn.microsoft.com/exchange/

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers