Forward Groupwise message byt retain orginal senders reply to address

[trmbr]

Can anyone please advise me how to redirect, or forward, messages received in a Groupwise 5.5 Mailbox to another address BUT retain the original sender's reply-to address.
I've tried both the Forward and Delegate Rules however both change the original senders address to that of the recipient's address.
I believe the Delegate Rule worked in Groupwise prior to GW 5.2. Is there a workaround in GW5.5? I'm trying to migrate a Groupwise to Exchange 2000, but this has become a stumbling block.
Thanks
trmbr

 

[Saxonotes]

The process we used was to verify the successful migration of the account to E2K, then delete the GW account, then run GWCheck (or whatever the utility is called - sorry) on the user's GW post office (this updates and realigns the dist lists in which s/he's a member). By deleting the user's GW account, GroupWise (via the the API GateWay & the E2K GW connector) automagically forwards mail to the new account on the E2K side. Leaving the GW account in place, the GW PO doesn't know that it should be forwarded and just receives it.

- stephen@pcsn.com

 

[MichiganRon]

If you add the /FLATFWD switch to the GWIA.cfg file and restart the GWIA, anytime one of your users forwards an email (either manually or via a rule) WITHOUT CHANGING THE SUBJECT OR TEXT, their address information is stripped off by the GWIA. This will cause the email to appear to have come from the previous sender.

Check out

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10058490.htm

for more information. This is meant to work for Internet mail (mail going through the GWIA). Because internal GroupWise mail doesn't go through the GWIA, it may not work for internal mail. You'll have to try it out.

-Ron, CNA

 

[trmbr]

Thanks guys for your feeback - much appreciated.
The problem occurred when receiving both external (internet) and internal (groupwise) messages for the recipient, which had to be forwarded to the migrated account.
I did manage to get the forwardign to work, using the 'DELEGATE" rule on the mailbox, which forwarded the recieved messages to the migrated account, after hiding the grouupwise account (set Visibility to NONE). However groupwise users had to delete entries in their Frequent Contacts list, removing the reference to the existing hidden groupwise account and select the Exchange migrated account from the updated Novell Address List.
We werent able to delete the existing Groupwise account has it had the internet email address, against whihc incoming external messages had to be validated.
Also, Groupwise distribution lists had to be updated with the migrated exchange email address.
It now all works, but once again, thanks for your feedback.
trmbr