New to exchange general question

[milesy]

I have installed SBS 2003 and configered Exchange, no problems so far.

How can I set a rule or policy that would catch an E-mail not directly addressed to a recipient. So if a sender miss spelled an address, it would be court and sent to a holding In box or to another in box may be sales@ or info@

Secondly, to set a In box for fred@mycompany.com is easy with the add new user wizard, but I do not want to create a user account for Sales, Accounts, Service and Info@mycopany.com
How would I create the new accounts

Craig Miles, CCNA

 

[ShackDaddy]

As far as your second question, there are two ways to do that, depending on whether you want those non-user emails to go directly to a particular mailbox or to a distribution group. If you want it to go to a mailbox, go to that user's Properties and add that email address to their list of valid email addresses. If you want the emails to go to two or more people, then create a new group (choose distribution list, not security group) and then assign that group an email address like "sales@company.com".

The first question...I don't know if you know what you are asking for. The sheer amount of spam you will get in whichever account you specify will surprise you. And when that misaddressed mail starts "sticking" to your server and not being bounced (which is the default behavior), then spammers will consider every email address in your domain a valid recipient and you will see the volume escalate rapidly....don't do it!

One thing I do (in a smaller business environment) is create email addresses for each user using all the most likely misspellings of their names.

ShackDaddy

 

[milesy]

Thatks for that, I see what you mean about the junk / spam mail. I have had a re-think and am going to take your advise on that one.

I understand what you are explaining with regards to the distrubution group but cannot get it to work, I cannot find how to add multipal users in on the distrubution list. Any idea's


Craig Miles, CCNA

 

[milesy]

OK cancle that, sorted it. How come there is always a but. I can create a new folder for each user called 'shared mail' can I set a rule / policy to copy mail that is forwarded from sale@ and info@ to the shared mail folder.


Craig Miles, CCNA

 

[milesy]

Sorted that one too. I thinks its a case of R T F M

Craig Miles, CCNA