Exchange autoreponse : entire company address changing

[coffeejunkie]

My company is going through a name change and therefore also an email address change as well. Does anyone know if Exchange 5.5 sp4 has the ability to send an auto-response informing the sender that the email address has changed for that particular individual. A total of 300 mailboxes will require a customized response of: person.name@acme.com I would like to control this on the server side and not rely on the users to setup an out of office rule/template.

If it requires additional software to run on the exchange server, can anyone recommend one?

Thanks in advance
Coffee

 

[jpaf]

Don't think you can do it for individual mailboxes from the server. Is it just the domain name that is changing? If so, why not add a disclaimer (or amend the current one) to all outbound internet mail to illustrate the change, with an example.

Regards
jpaf

 

[coffeejunkie]

No actually, it is the format of the address and the domain name. It used to be initial.lastname@acme.com, now firstname.lastname@newacme.com.

I have seen other organizations provide a method to respond without user intervention, but it escapes me how.

I have tried to do a directory export to a csv file. This has provided the attribute titled AutoReply-message field, however, no matter what you type in that field or other relevant fields it will not activate the response. I found this information on MSDN regarding the coding of this field.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/exchserv/html/sch_attr_4m91.asp

The prepended header is a good idea, but with naming convention and company name changes it may become confusing to the reader.

Any thoughts at all are welcome.

Thanks,
Coffee

 

[johnmob]

The company i work for is going through a name change and therefore also an email address change. Does anyone know if Exchange 5.5 sp4 has the ability to send an auto-response on every message sent to name@oldname.xx informing the sender that the email address will be changed to name@newname.xx. I would like to control this on the server side and not rely on the users to setup an out of office rule/template.

If it requires additional software to run on the exchange server, can anyone recommend one?

Thanks in advance

 

[tamtam]

Our company is also going through a name change and I am also looking for a way to send an auto-reply message when emails are sent to the old address, controlled on the server-side. Any suggestions would be helpful.