Adding a postmaster

[Wirephil]

Hey people

Just a little problem, I would like emails sent to a user that doesnt exist but right domain (wrong name@my company.co.uk)to be forwarded to my own account. How can i do this? Is it done through postmaster?

 

[Niksen]

you cannot do that, feature by design.

 

[nickpark]

course you can...
add a secondary SMTP address using the AD users and computer MMC.

 

[Wirephil]

Thanks ;-)

 

[Tightpants]

But can you forward all messages with unrecognised addresses to a selected account? We receive many messages from poor typists who get the e-mail address wrong so it is impossible to create secondary e-mail addresses for every eventuality!

 

[Niksen]

as i said, cant do that. I got above mentioned answer from MS, feature by design. Else the spammers could "guess" the addresses and just send mails to any address.

bst rgds

 

[ymeq123]

Here is the link to do it. It is a bit messy but is works. I use this for my Exchange 2000 box.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324021

Check out this MSDN Blog. It talks a little about the downs side of doing this.

http://blogs.msdn.com/dlemson/archive/2004/01/19/60388.aspx

Also, there are third party products for this:

MailBasketMD from

http://www.turbogeeks.com/products/mailbasketmd.asp

is one that comes to mind.

Good luck!

 

[Niksen]

mm, nice !

but as i understood the problem, only bad addresses should be caught by the event sink !?

i guess someone with knowledge of code, could make an eventsink that checks the AD for a address match.

bst rgds