Hello I was wondering what is the best way to forward mail coming to my "company" email address to my personal email address. I tried using the forwarding rules on the Outlook Web App but it seems that the mail is not being forwarded. Help will be much appreciated. Thank You

Create a mail-enabled Contact object in the AD. Then modify the delivery options on the mailbox to forward the mail to the Contact.--- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Make sure you are allowing auto forwards in Exchange global settings. You would set this on your default domaini * Configure Remote Domain Properties http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124931.aspxJames Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com

Hi, By the way, which is the version of Exchange Server you are using? As James said, you need to check "Allow automatic forward" option on the server side in order to make the forward rule work. And you should test this issue. I am really grateful for your replies. ThanksCognizant

Hello All Thank you for the responses! I have done the steps recommended, but am still having trouble getting Hotmail, AOL, and Bellsouth clients from recieving their forwarded emails. Gmail and Yahoo work fine. Let me know what you think. Thanks Again!

Hello Sorry about that. I'm running SBS 2011 with Exchange 2010. Thank You

If your SMTP send protocol logs show the message sent to, and accepted by, the domains you mention and you don't receive a NDR from those domains, then it's possible that the messages are simply being detected, and filtered, as spam. If that's the case then you'll have to work with the administration crew at the domains to figure out what the problem is.--- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

I have the exact same problem. Forward and redirect rules in SBS 2011's Exchange 2010 simply do not work when both the sender of the incoming email and recipient address in the forward/redirect rule are external addresses! This works properly in plain vanilla Exchange 2010 with no special configuration, other than enabling Allow automatic forward, but in SBS 2011 it just plain doesn't work. Please help.

In your case it could also be due to spf filtering, spf checks do not like it when they see forwarded emails from external to external and tend to reject. It's just the nature of spf, to circumvent you need to do address rewriting. Someone's blog article below goes over it well. As far working in plain vanilla 2010 and not in sbs I'm more inclined the testing matrix differed whether you used different domains etc. https://joking611.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/spf-prohibits-pre-delivery-forwarding/James Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com

Unfortunately, SPF is not the problem. SPF isn't used on either the source or destination domain. This issue occurs on two totally separate and independent SBS 2011 installations on two different domains and two different ISPs.

Have you looked at your smtp logs like Rich suggested? Something will show in there whether it was accepted or not.James Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com

I have. The redirected e-mail never gets transmitted.