Correlating Usernames with mailboxes

[happyhacker]

Am I right in thinking that if I have existing mailboxes on our IPS server e.g. info@..... and I configure POP3 on the SBS 2008 to download emails, I can direct theses emails to a specific SBS user e.g. fred.miles? I.e. I do not have to have the same email username as the SBS username (have not configured them yet on the server).

Thanks for your time.

 

[NortonES2]

Correct, you can configue the smtp address to be anything you like though it must be unique within your domain, ie you can't have info@domain.com attached to more than one mailbox unless it is a distrbution list.

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[markdmac]

happyhacker, since I know you are moving toward going away from the POP accounts, you should know that you can also add a secondary email address to a user.

In Exchange Management Console, view properties of the user mailbox. Choose the Email Addresses tab. There you can click Add and give a user a second account such as "info" or "sales" etc.

Your other option is to create a distribution group and provide it that email address. Then assign group members and any email sent to that address will be forwarded to the group.

I hope that helps.

Regards,

Mark

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