Creating mailbox without user

[maya14]

How can I create mailboxes without creating AD users. We have lots of mail accounts that needs to be enabled and accessed by several users but I don’t want to create user accounts to get a mailbox.

 

[58sniper]

Mailboxes are tied to user accounts.

You can, however, use Public Folders, and tie an email address to them, then grant the appropriate permissions to those users.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP

 

[Guest_imported]

I check two email addresses (ischustak@... & info@...) on my SBS 2003 server with only one account. Here's how I did it:
Step 1 - In the Server Management console, click Users. Double click the user who needs multiple addresses. You will notice a tab entitled Email Addresses. You can then add New email addresses to be checked! Emails sent to the new addresses count towards that User's storage.
Step 2 (if you want to send from additional accounts) - These are the steps I use in Outlook 2007 to do this. Go to Tools -> Account Settings -> New. Choose Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP. Click Next. In this screen, make sure you click to manually configure the settings! In the next screen, choose Internet Email. In the final screen, enter in the name you want displayed and the new email address. For your Incoming and Outgoing servers, use your domain information (for example, I use wcapps.WebbCenter.local). For Username and Password, use the actual User Account information, not the new email address info. You can now choose which account you would like to use to send!

Ivan
Wickenburg
Enjoy the show!

 

[markdmac]

Maya, you can create Public Folders that are mail enabled and restrict access to those, otherwise your choices are to create Resource Accounts (same thing as a user) and assign rights to the mailboxes to those users that need access. Or you can add additional SMTP addresses to an existing user.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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