William, I finally found my old notebook, and I was using a Unix box between my Exchange server and the Internet way back a bunch of years and a few jobs ago. Had it set to forward any unknown or unrecognized aliases to the Postmaster box I had created on Exchange. It was because we had some really AR high level execs that insisted that delays in receiving mail from customers and investors was unacceptable. The fact that the folks couldn't type, and that even the Post Office can't deliver mail without the correct address didn't matter. To save myself and the rest of the IT staff from incessant whining and sometimes screaming, we instituted that fix. One of the guys wrote a nice script to create the aliases on the Unix box when we created an Exchange account, so it wasn't a ton of work. We gave the receptionist rights to that mailbox, and she had the task of figuring out whom the mail was intended for and sending it on. We also had the receptionist send the correct contact info back to the sender in hopes of slowing the flow. I admit it was a case of using technology to overcome idiocy, rather than educating users, but dealing with irrational people that also sign the checks...
Jay Personette [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mavtech.com/ (281) 455-3993 -----Original Message----- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:57 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Default recipient???? 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 List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
