Out of Office | Forward Email to External Address

[gavm99]

Hi all,

This should be a simple one, but I can't get it working!

All I want to do is forward emails to an external email address (for example, a Google Mail address) when I'm Out of Office.

I'm using Outlook 2007 with Small Business Server 2008.

I go into Outlook and turn on my Out of Office Reply, I then also setup a rule so that any email is forward to an external address which I type into the Forward box on the Edit Rule screen. I also tick the boxes for emails Sent Directly to Me and CC'd.

However the emails don't get forward onto my Google account.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.

Gavin Moorhouse

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[noveyron]

Forward to an ADUC mail enabled contact instead?

 

[gavm99]

Already tried that! Any other ideas?

Gavin Moorhouse

http://www.lucidcomputersolutions.co.uk

Check out my blog

http://www.thelucidview.co.uk

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[biglebowski]

Not an exchange expert but would this be classed as a relay and therefore blocked by default. Have you tried forwarding to an internal address to see if that works?

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[IPOfficeGuru]

In SBS2008, open Microsoft Exchange Console (Run As - Administrator). Open Recipient Configuration. Open Mail Contact. Within the Mail COntact session - create a contact and SMTP e-mail address which are outside of your system. (i.e. tim@gmail.com).
Still within the Micosoft Exchange Console - Choose user that you want to associate with the newly created external SMTP. Click "Mailflow: tab. Click Delivery options and then enter the contact name that you created.
We have it working on several sites.
Good Luck.

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