Configuring a users email account to send a copy to an adminitrator

[Jabamusic]

Hi All,
I need to be able to configure Exchange in Microsoft Server SBS 2003 to send copies of all in/out going emails on a users account to another account ( I know BIG Brother etc)!!

These need to be instantaneous.

Any help?

Thanks

 

[ShackDaddy]

Outbound is more of a problem, but to configure copies of all inbound:

User properties -> Exchange General tab -> Delivery Options -> Forwarding address

Make sure you check the box that makes it deliver mail to both the original recipient and the forwarded one.

Outbound is not easy to set up without a 3rd party product. Why don't you just give mailbox rights to the other user account so that account can just open that mailbox and view it as needed? Or even use an OWA logon to that account?

Dave Shackelford
Shackelford Consulting

 

[Jabamusic]

Yes, it is the outbound in particular that is giving me a headache.

What third party s/w?

and has anybody actually managed to get outbound emails to do what I want?

Thanks

 

[ShackDaddy]

Tools that run server-side to do what you want to do will be more expensive that client-side tools. You should be able to find something you could use here:

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/auto.asp

To route outbound emails the way you are describing, you'd need to write a custom "transport sink", which involves programming and is not trivial for most people. If you are up to the challenge, you could modify this sink to do what you need it to do:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324021/

I would also point out that this sort of thing is very simple in Exchange 2007, using Transport Rules, but that sort of functionality was not exposed in Exchange 2003.

Dave Shackelford
Shackelford Consulting

 

[Jabamusic]

Message journaling as been mentioned to m.

Any thoughts as I have not come across it before/

Cheers

 

[ShackDaddy]

Message journaling will put everything sent or received from ANY mailbox into one mailbox. It's not until Exchange 2007 that you have some granularity to apply to journaling.

Dave Shackelford
Shackelford Consulting

 

[scottew]

Here is a solution from the Exchange forum that will allow you to use Journaling.

http://tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1500809&page=1

Scott

 

[ShackDaddy]

Except that you can't create an additional mailbox store on SBS 2003... So that won't work.

Dave Shackelford
Shackelford Consulting