Redirect Email

[hotblacktar]

I have several mailboxes on my Exchange 5.5 server of former employees. I want to delete them to save space. The problem is if I do that want people who send emails to those addresses will receive a bounceback message stating the recpient cannot be found.

I would like to send back a message with contact an auto reply with information about how to contact the company.

Is there a way to delete the mailboxes but still keep the email addresses? And how do I set up an autoreply message?

 

[ChrisHirst]

Take a look at this thread

thread10-221100

Redirection of EMAIL

Chris.

 

[Dink]

We also experienced this problem and found that the thread Chris is referring you to to be v.helpful.

You will be more interested in the reply that mentions creating a separate mailbox to all the ex-employees and then add all the employees SMTP addresses to the option email addresses.

We have had to to this on numerous occassions.

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