Catch All Email

[furious5]

I've read quite a few messages about this, but I am still struggling.

Basically I am wanting to set up a catch all e-mail address, which will forward on to the administrator.

Our mail is routed through an ISP providing it has the correct domain suffix (e.g default.com), we then log on and pick up the mail via our exchange server and distribute internally.

The problem is that any wrongly addressed e-mails are being bounced by our exchange server.

We are running Exchange 5.5, any ideas of how I can get this running?

I have looked at the SMTP Event sink solution on the Microsoft Knowledge base, however this is for Exchange 2000.

 

[NortonES2]

In the properties for the Internet Mail Service make sure you have the Administrators mailbox set. All wrongly addressed emails should then be routed to this mailbox.

-------------------------------

If it doesn't leak oil it must be empty!!

 

[furious5]

Is the Internet Mail Service contained within the Exchange 5.5 Administrator?

If so, when I open the exchange administrator it asks me which server I wish to connect to. At this point, I enter the IP address of the server and it comes back with the following error:

A connection could not be established to the Microsoft Exchange Server computer "10.0.0.2"

The Microsoft Exchange Server computer does not respond.

Any ideas?

 

[NortonES2]

It is in the Exchange administrator under Configuration \ Connections container.

Are you running the Administrator on the Exchange server or remotely? If remotely can you ping the server? If you can ping it or you are running the administrator locally check that all the exchange services are running.

-------------------------------

If it doesn't leak oil it must be empty!!

 

[furious5]

We are not running the Exchange Administrator hence me asking, I have only recently taken over the role of exchange admin so am still getting to grips with the server set up etc.

I take it, it is not possibly if we are not running the exchange administrator?

 

[NortonES2]

I believe that the Exchange administrator is the only place that this can be set.

-------------------------------

If it doesn't leak oil it must be empty!!

 

[furious5]

Erm thought so, thanks for your time.

 

[Psingh]

I think for this u should make a pop catch all account at ur ISP side. This account will get all the mails without seeing the address before @, it will only see whether ur domain name is correct or not. If @company.com is correct the mail will be delivered to the mailbox, irrespective of the user. Then ur exchange will fetch all the mails and delivered to the user's mailbox. The mails those have incorrect mail address will be delivered to the administrator mailbox or the mailbox that u had mentioned.

PSingh

 

[furious5]

We do all ready have a catch all e-mail which is feed from the ISP.

The problem is that when the mails are feed through from the ISP to our exchange server mails with incorrect addresses are getting bounced however we are not getting any of the mails with incorrect addresses.

Any further ideas?

 

[Grenage]

Why not just install exchange administrator? It is on the CD.

 

[furious5]

We've got the administrator install, but it cannot find a server to connect to.

Any ideas?

 

[Grenage]

So you type in the server name that exhange is running on and it cannot connect?

 

[furious5]

Correct

 

[NortonES2]

Have you installed the administrator on the Exchange server or is it remote? If it is remote can you ping the exchange server from the administrator machine?

-------------------------------

If it doesn't leak oil it must be empty!!

 

[furious5]

The administrator is installed but when I run it, it asks for the server to connect to. At this point I give the ip address of the server where exchange is running and I get this error:

A connection could not be established to the Microsoft Exchange Server computer "10.0.0.2"

The Microsoft Exchange Server computer does not respond.

I have tried pinging mail server ip that we pick our mail up from and cannot.

 

[NortonES2]

Is your mail server on the same LAN as the machine with the administrator installed?

-------------------------------

If it doesn't leak oil it must be empty!!

 

[furious5]

All our mail when sent goes to our ISP, and is held there until we then pick up the mail from the mail box.

Once the mail is picked up, our exchange server then distributes the mail providing there is an existing account.

Does this make sense?

 

[NortonES2]

OK is your exchange server on the same LAN as the machine with the administrator installed?

-------------------------------

If it doesn't leak oil it must be empty!!

 

[furious5]

Yes

 

[NortonES2]

Can you ping the exchange server?

-------------------------------

If it doesn't leak oil it must be empty!!