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Weird mail forwarding problem - 1.Jun.2010 6:35:38 AM

choading

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Hi Guys,

We have a very weird problem. A user was away last week so I set their emails to forward to another user in Exchange 2007. Now today I have taken this off in Exchange but the emails are still getting forwarded!? The server has been rebooted, and no change

No rules/delegates have been set up in their Outlook, server is running Server 2008.

Does anyone have any ideas before I create a new account then adding the email address to it?

Thanks
Choad

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RE: Weird mail forwarding problem - 1.Jun.2010 6:45:10 AM

mark@mvps.org

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Don't create a new account, that's taking a sledgehammer to a nut of a problem. Re-check your settings. Restarting the server was drastic but should have solved the problem. Set the thing to forward to somewhere else (create a test mailbox perhaps?) and make sure that does work and it's still not forwarding to the old place. Then stop that forwarding.
Report back what happened.

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RE: Weird mail forwarding problem - 1.Jun.2010 7:00:38 AM

choading

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Hi Mark,

Thanks for the reply,

I've set it to forward to another mailbox but it still keeps forwarding to the old one. Settings have been rechecked and I can't see anything wrong, no forwarding set up in Exchange, no Outlook rules or Out of Office.

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RE: Weird mail forwarding problem - 1.Jun.2010 7:29:59 AM

choading

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Update:

I've just set up forwarding in Exchange (2007) - Mail flow settings -> delivery options on the Administrator account to a test mailbox. Sent an email from external account and the email did not get forwarded??

This is weird, is exchange not updating?

Thanks
Choad

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RE: Weird mail forwarding problem - 1.Jun.2010 8:27:38 AM

mark@mvps.org

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Sounds like the begining of an AD replication problem here. How many GCs have you got and "where" are they (logically and physically)?

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RE: Weird mail forwarding problem - 9.Jul.2010 1:49:50 PM