Much better option is to use Exchange Management Shell with Get-Mailbox CMDlet. We will spend a lot of time If we would like to use Exchange Mangement Console to verify mailbox Forward To. Users always have a lot of reasons to enable Forward To option.Īfter a while we mostly forget which mailbox has enabled Forward To option, and we forget to disable it.Įvery now and then we should check, which mailbox has Exchange 2010 Forward To option enabled and if we don’t need it anymore, disable it.
Many times in our Exchange 2010 environment we need to forward messages from one mailbox to another. Server-side email forwarding configured by an administrator, as shown in this post, is not impacted by this setting.Exchange 2010 mailboxes list with forward to address enabled:
To enable automatic client-side forwarding of mail to external addresses, select the Allow automatic forward checkbox in a remote domain’s properties | Format of original message sent as attachment to journal report tab (Yes, in Exchange 2007 the tab is mislabeled. For instance, if a user creates a rule in Microsoft Outlook to automatically forward mail to an external email address, the default setting (for address space *) doesn’t allow it. The Allow automatic forward setting for remote domains applies only to client-side forwarding using mechanisms like Inbox Rules. The default Remote Domain setting for the address space * (the asterisk character) applies to all external domains except the ones for which you’ve created a Remote Domain for.įigure 3: The Allow automatic forward setting for remote domains only impacts client-side automatic forwarding using mechanisms like Inbox Rules, and is disabled by default. Remote Domains define a bunch of settings, such as message formats, character sets, and OOFs for messages sent to specified domains outside your Exchange organization. Get-Mailbox | where | ft name,forwardingaddress This command lists mailboxes with auto forwarding enabled: Set-Mailbox “Joe Adams” -ForwardingAddress “ ” -DeliverToMailboxAndForward $true Listing users with forwarding enabled To deliver a copy to the mailbox (in addition to the external email address – equivalent of step 4 above): Set-Mailbox “Joe Adams” -ForwardingAddress “ ” To configure mail forwarding using the Shell:
Click New to complete creation of new MailContactĪlternatively, use the Shell to create a new MailContact: If you need to forward mail to an external email address, you can’t simply type the address in the Forward to: field on the Delivery Options page.Click Edit to add the external email address.To create a new Contact object, leave the default ( New Contact) selected | click Next.In the Action pane, click New Mail Contact.