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Hi, We have created a custom recipient, fred@external-domain.com, so that when someone sends an email into us at fred@internal-domain.com it is forwarded on to the alternate recipient, fred@external-domain.com The problem is, when the user logs into Outlook Express to get their email from the...

Each service that is set to start automatically was set up with the admin account name and password. Now that you have changed the password, these services cannot start automatically and you have to manually type the password in. Once you fix your "missing services" problem, you should be able...

You can deliver to an alterate recipient in Exchange, but you have to pick from the list of people set up on the server. This is where custom recipient is useful. Open up Exchange Administrator, Click on the + on the left side next to the name of your server Click onRecipients it may be at the...

You could remove John's smtp address from his profile and add it to jane's. She will then receive emails to either email address. You can then delete John's profile and mailbox completely. I'm not sure if that's what you meant by alias or not. Or if you want to keep John's profile and...

SdBot backdoor is reaching our Exchange 5.5 Server most days. Looking in c:\winnt\system32 I can see new .exe files which I have to delete and remove from the registry. When I do netstat -an I can see a connection to external IP addresses via a number of listening (and established) ports which...

Go to www.nemx.com they provide filtering software which runs on the same server as Exchange, it allows you to filter on sender, receiver, keywords, subjects, attachments,etc and you can choose what to do, e.g. delete message or just attachment, forward to another user, copy to another user, or...

The event log shows that I would gain 2Gb, but I was expecting to gain a lot more. I think I'll have to do a proper tidy up on the server removing every old mailbox I find, before trying the offline defrag again. I think I'll get a calculator and total up each user's mailbox size - maybe it...

I ran this on our 13Gb private store file and I got no space back whatsoever. Im still working on the problem, and have since:- 1) removed the tick from "do not delete private store until full backup has been performed" since our backup has not worked for many months. 2) Removed...

Hi, To run the offline defrag you need to have 110% free space of the file you want to defrag. Our private store is 13 Gb which filled the disk so we put a bigger disk in yesterday and copied everything over. With 17 GB of free space with the new disk I ran the defrag last night only to come...

Go to www.nemx.com and download their software. You can trial it for 30 days. I've been using it for a few months now and it can be used to add disclaimers, filter emails, block, copy, delete or even quarantine emails by subject,phrase, attachment, etc.

There is meant to be a limit on the whole Private Information Store of 16Gb, I have not come across a limit on an individual mailbox apart from the limits set up manually. Our Private Information Store is currently 13Gb and I have come here looking for answers on shrinking it down since I...