We have an employee that will soon retire, out first. Management does not want any NEW email to go to his mailbox, his mailbox should be available to certian individuals, yet when a new email arrives an Out of Office message should be sent telling the sender to resend the email to other indivduals. How do I do this in Exchange 2007? I have tested this using a test account, modified message delivery restrictions, senders receive a your message was not delivered due to security policies, but no Out of Office message is sent because nothing reached the mailbox. There must be a way to accomplish this. Thanks in advance, rtvintx

Hello, I would suggest that you could create a transport rule in Exchange server 2007 to redirect all his emails to another mailbox, that way you do not have to have the sender resend the message to another mailbox in your org. let me know if you need help setting up a transport rule. thanks Sandeep

It is management's decision to block all new mail from the mailbox and force senders to resend to another user, not mine. This decision is based on the content and purpose of the email going to other employees who will be assigned new duties. Is there a way to block email from getting to the mailbox (i did so with message delivery restrictions) AND send an Out of Office message. If not, I guess I will have to setup a transport rule (will need help) to dump all new email into another mailbox and then send an Out of Office message to instruct sender to resend email to other users. thanks, rtvintx

Yes. It's possible! Create transport rule (or configure message delivery options) and redirect all messages to another mailbox. In same transfer rule configure custom NDR report and set custom "Bounce" message to senders (instead of configuring OOOffice) Marko

Hello, First, set up Exchange to make sure autoreplies are allowed: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2006/10/06/3395024.aspx Then set up mailbox forwarding: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb851509(v=exchg.80).aspx Miguel Fra / Falcon IT Services Computer & Network Support, Miami, FL Visit our Knowledgebase and Support Sharepoint Site

Thanks Marko, This worked for me: I created a transport rule on the exchange 2007 server as follows: Apply rule to messages sent to people "sent to retired user" send bounce message to sender with enhanced status code "send Delivery not authorized, message refused to sender with 5.7.100" (you have to change this from 5.7.1 to something not already used, i set it to 5.7.100. I then used the EMS command New-SystemMessage -DsnCode 5.7.100 -Language En -Internal $false -Text Your longer message goes here to create the custom message. And if you have a typo or want to change the message use the EMS command Set-SystemMessage En\External\5.7.100 -Text "altered text" Thanks for your ideas and help, Robert