A user at the school district where I work would like to have Email sent to her Exchange account forwarded to her Live account. The only configuration I found pertaining to forwarding had to do with forwarding to another account within our Exchange server. Is there a way to forward to an outside Email account? Thanks.Matt Georgetti

you can create a rule to forward emails to outside your organization.MCSE,CCNA,VCP,APP

Hi,You should create a contact in your organization pointing to the external address and you will be able to forward the messages to this contact.Regards,Zoltnhttp://www.clamagent.org - Free Antivirus for Exchange http://www.it-pro.hu http://emaildetektiv.hu

Both methods are correct, but it depends on Forwarding is enabled in Global settings (if Exchange 2003) or in Remote Domain (if Exchange 2007)... Forwarding Mail to an External Recipient http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF015.htmlAmit Tank | MVP Exchange Server | MCITP: EMA |MCSA: M | http://ExchangeShare.WordPress.com

Sorry about that... I should have mentioned that I'm using Exchange 2007. We just installed Exchange 2007 not too long ago so I'm still a bit of a novice at it. Whatever method is best, could I have directions on how to do it? Thank you.Matt Georgetti

1- open Outlook andcreate a contactfor Live account2- Click Tools-->Rules And Alerts3- New Rule4- Start From a blank rule5- and create a rule that will forward evert emails to cerated contack for Live accountMCSE,CCNA,VCP,APP

Thanks for the quick response. This may be a dumb question but just to make sure... This will work even if she isn't using Outlook? It should forward the Email anyway, correct? Thanks.Matt Georgetti

Hi, It is correct, if she using server side rule.My opinion is using Outlook Rule is not the possible best choice. I would rather use Active Directory forward setting. Regards,Zoltnhttp://www.clamagent.org - Free Antivirus for Exchange http://www.it-pro.hu http://emaildetektiv.hu

if you create a contact in active directory other users will see it in the global address list MCSE,CCNA,VCP,APP

Step by step guide to create a contact for external address and set it in "Delivery Options" to forward email to that contact in Exchange 2007. How to forward mail to an external email address http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2008/02/how-to-forward-mail-to-external-email.html Amit Tank | MVP Exchange Server | MCITP: EMA | MCSA: M | http://ExchangeShare.WordPress.com

Hi Ismail,You can hide the Contact from the addresslists.I've a following problems with the Outlook Rule:1. As I know if you forward the message by the rule the sender of the message will be the mailbox user and not the original sender2. You have limited number of rules it happend many times that the user created more rules than the Exchange can handle. In this case not all of the rules executed.The only drawback of the AD settings that it cannot be administered by the user.Regards,Zoltnhttp://www.clamagent.org - Free Antivirus for Exchange http://www.it-pro.hu http://emaildetektiv.hu

Thanks for the help everyone. I followed the instructions in the link that Amit Tank gave me. Consider this issue resolved.Matt Georgetti