Is it possible to forward from Exchange to external e-mail address such as Gmail or hotmail without having Active Directory account? Thanks

You can't have Exchange without Active Directory. You could create a Outlook rule to forward messages to any account you want without creating a contact in Active Directory.Mark Morowczynski|MCT| MCSE 2003:Messaging, Security|MCITP:ES, SA,EA|MCTS:Windows Mobile Admin|Security+|http://almostdailytech.com

Adding to what Mark said You need to have AD account and a mailbox in order to login to mailbox and then send email to those domains. See how to forward email Forwarding Mail to an External Recipient http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF015.htmlVinod |CCNA|MCSE 2003 +Messaging|MCTS|ITIL V3|

On Wed, 18-Nov-09 09:00:21 GMT, Kyi Phyu Sin wrote:>>>Is it possible to forward from Exchange to external e-mail address such as Gmail or hotmail without having Active Directory account? Thanks You need some representation in the AD if you expect Exchange toredirect (not forward) email. You don't need a user account, though; asimple mail-enabled Contact is all that's necessary.---Rich MatheisenMCSE+I, Exchange MVP--- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

You need some representation in the AD if you expect Exchange toredirect (not forward) email. You don't need a user account, though; asimple mail-enabled Contact is all that's necessary.---Rich MatheisenMCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP Hi, If so, could you tell me how? Thanks.

On Thu, 19-Nov-09 04:11:30 GMT, Kyi Phyu Sin wrote:>You need some representation in the AD if you expect Exchange toredirect (not forward) email. You don't need a user account, though; asimple mail-enabled Contact is all that's necessary.---Rich MatheisenMCSE+I, Exchange MVP >--- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP>>Hi, >> >>If so, could you tell me how? Exchange 2003: use the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-inExchange 2007: Use the Exchange Management Consolerimary SMTP proxy address for the Contact will be the address inthe "external" domain. Assign as secondary SMTP proxy address in yourdomain. The secondary proxy address will be the one that someone endsthe email to.---Rich MatheisenMCSE+I, Exchange MVP--- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Hi, If so, could you tell me how? Thanks. Please read the article provided by Vinod, it has the detail steps.

Exchange 2003: use the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-inExchange 2007: Use the Exchange Management Consolerimary SMTP proxy address for the Contact will be the address inthe "external" domain. Assign as secondary SMTP proxy address in yourdomain. The secondary proxy address will be the one that someone endsthe email to. I did accordingly but it did not work. I created a new contact by user1@gmail.com as Primary SMTP address and user2@mydomain.com as Secondary SMTP address. Then, I sent the email from other external account to uer2@mydomain.com and I got this error Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently. Kyi

Please read the article provided by Vinod, it has the detail steps. Thanks. In fact, I have done this several times but I was wondering that whether it is possible to forward without keeping AD account. Kyi

On Thu, 19-Nov-09 07:25:15 GMT, Kyi Phyu Sin wrote:>Exchange 2003: use the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-inExchange 2007: Use the Exchange Management Consolerimary SMTP proxy address for the Contact will be the address inthe "external" domain. Assign as secondary SMTP proxy address in yourdomain. The secondary proxy address will be the one that someone endsthe email to.>er2@mydomain.com as Secondary SMTP address. Then, I sent the email from other external account to uer2@mydomain.com and I got this error “Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently”. So, what was the SMTP status returned in the NDR?Does sending an email to the user2@mydomain.com address work if yousend it using Outlook connected to your Exchange server?Are you running Exchange 2003 or 2007? Did you use the ADUC or EMC tocreate the Contact?---Rich MatheisenMCSE+I, Exchange MVP--- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP