forwarding e-mails to aol 1

[homer15]

hello everyone,

i'm trying to setup a forwarder to send incoming e-mail to a users aol account... for such a seemingly easy task, it sure is a pain to accomplish...

here's what i've done:
i setup a new account to act as the forwarder. i put the users e-mail address in this accounts.
i setup the users account to automatically forward to the forwarder account. still it doesn't work. all that happens is e-mails get stored in the forwarder's account and never leave the server. can anyone help?

 

[allanh1]

then close the exchange system manager and open up the active directory of users and computers. navigate down to users, and create a new user named userfwd. i setup the password just like normal, and i create and exchange mailbox. right click on the new user and go to properties. i click on the e-mail addresses tab and click new. i chose smtp as the type, and type in the e-mail address (user@aol.com). i click ok and close the new user"


from reading wht you have posted above you are creating a new user account not a contact, a contact doesnt have a password etc... you want to choose new contact otherwise the emails are forwarded to the forwarding account and then will sit in that mailbox. even if you create an @aol email address on that user - go back into ad - do new contact and create the email in there and then forward the emails to that - it shouldnt ask you for a password or anything.

Allan

 

[homer15]

that was it, allanh1. that was the simple thing i was missing. thanks a lot, guys.