Their friends will still receive the NDR's as well for misspelled names indicating unknown recipient, but so will the postmaster.
You do not need a separate mailbox necessarily. You can use any valid SMTP address in your org. There is no catch-all functionality in Exchange. William -----Original Message----- From: Jay Personette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 7:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Default recipient???? William, I created a mailbox as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and was trying to get the messages to go there. I guess it must be send mail I was thinking of with a "default or *@domain.com". I am trying to work out a nice way to deal with users who are not happy that their friends can't spell their names and don't use address books... I haven't done this in a long time, and it may have been before my exchange days...but sending copies of the NDRs to the Admin mailbox will work as well I suppose. It may have been using a send mailbox between Exchange and the Internet to forward anything not in the alias list to the postmaster mailbox on Exchange. Thanks for your suggestion, Not exactly what I wanted, but it will do. Jay Personette [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mavtech.com/ (281) 455-3993 -----Original Message----- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 8:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Default recipient???? In the IMS Properties you can enter a mailbox (or DL, or public folder address) and assign that as a destination for copies of NDR's. You can manually forward to intended recipients from there. There is no postmaster assigned by default. William -----Original Message----- From: Jay Personette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 6:52 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Default recipient???? I cannot for the life of me remember how to set an Exchange 5.5 server to accept mail addressed to the domain with misspellings in the username. I am trying to get the "postmaster" mailbox to accept miss-addressed messages, for rerouting. Tried google and MS KB, but I seem to have lost my touch on phrasing searches today. All I seem to get are links to keep from being an open relay...anyone got a Q# or any other pointer for me to continue my search? I swear I used to do this, but I may be confusing myself with Unix sendmail.... Jay Personette [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mavtech.com/ (281) 455-3993 List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
