ignore recipient name and use the domain

[robctech]

I hope someone can give me some ideas.

Is there anyway to ignore the fact that the recipient does not exist on incoming mail. I have seen with a couple providers that if you have an account say joesmith@mydomain.com and someone sends mail to say joesmit@mydomain.com that the system will ignore the fact that joesmit@mydomain.com does not exist and simply deliver the mail to joesmith@mydomain.com

Basically what I want to do is have any mail designated for mydomain.com to go to joesmith regardless what is before @mydomain.com has anyone done this or know how this can be accomplished with Exchange 5.5

thanks in advance

 

[brontosaurus]

YOu can do it indirectly by setting up Joe as the NDR sink account instead of Administrator.

 

[robctech]

I still want to remain the Administrator...I want to do this for some of the other domains on my system...is it possible without changing the NDR sink account

 

[brontosaurus]

set up a rule on the Administrator account to forward all emails to Joe.

 

[robctech]

I don't want to use the Administrator account as I don't even log into that account...I simply want any email sent to whatever name at mydomain.com accepted and put into a particular mail box...as if that mail address they sent it to actually exists.

Here's the situation:

Joe Smith - wants e-mail addresses
joesmith.com - his own domain

wants e-mail addresses:
joesmith@joesmith.com
joe@joesmith.com
smith@joesmith.com
webmaster@joesmith.com

he is the only person that pulls joesmith.com e-mail....so I want a way that I don't have to add an smtp address to his account everytime he comes up with another variant of his e-mail address...so if suddenly he subscribes to a list and uses list@joesmith.com it will automatically go into his mail as if that account exists...

Hope this explains more of what I'm looking for

 

[brontosaurus]

I understand what you want to do. What I'm trying to tell you is that the only way to catch these emails without adding SMTP addresses is via NDR to your internal notifications account. There is no "catch all" account ability.

 

[robctech]

ok thnks...that all I wanted to know was if exchange had this ability or not and if so how to do it..thanks again for your help bronto