I posted to the Sharepoint Forum: Hi, I set up inbound email on my WSS 3.0 site so that a mail enabled document library will get mail if I mail directly to its configured address; tested this with outlook and it's working. However, if I forward mail to the same email address automatically by creating a rule on a public folder eg. all mail forward to user1@mydomain.com, user2@mydomain.com and mydocumentlibrary@mysharepointserver.mydomain.com, then the users will get their mail but the public folder will not get the email. Is this by design? I did try creating a contact for the Library's email address and forwarding to that - same as I would for an external address - but that didn't work either. I am using the smtp service on the SP server. I am not seeing inbound mail hit the inetpub "drop" folder when it is being forwarded from the public folder. It does hit the drop folder when I send directly from Outlook. Exchange is 2003. Thanks! GuYuming, MSFT Moderator there wrote: If it does not hit the drop folder, it's more likely to be an Exchange issue. Please try post the question in Exchange forum also to get a quicker response. Any Ideas?

Exchange probably thinks you are trying to send mail to the Internet, and you smartly have forbidden automatic replies and forwards to the Internet. I recommend that you create a contact for each of the SharePoint recipients and change the forward rule to forward to the contact. -- Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." . "pmolina" wrote in message news:45bb80e6-5490-45c7-ab72-26ae5399fc04... I posted to the Sharepoint Forum: Hi, I set up inbound email on my WSS 3.0 site so that a mail enabled document library will get mail if I mail directly to its configured address; tested this with outlook and it's working. However, if I forward mail to the same email address automatically by creating a rule on a public folder eg. all mail forward to user1@mydomain.com, user2@mydomain.com and mydocumentlibrary@mysharepointserver.mydomain.com, then the users will get their mail but the public folder will not get the email. Is this by design? I did try creating a contact for the Library's email address and forwarding to that - same as I would for an external address - but that didn't work either. I am using the smtp service on the SP server. I am not seeing inbound mail hit the inetpub "drop" folder when it is being forwarded from the public folder. It does hit the drop folder when I send directly from Outlook. Exchange is 2003. Thanks! GuYuming, MSFT Moderator there wrote: If it does not hit the drop folder, it's more likely to be an Exchange issue. Please try post the question in Exchange forum also to get a quicker response. Any Ideas? Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:18:57 +0000, pmolina wrote: >I set up inbound email on my WSS 3.0 site so that a mail enabled document library will get mail if I mail directly to its configured address; tested this with outlook and it's working. > >However, if I forward mail to the same email address automatically by creating a rule on a public folder eg. all mail forward to user1@mydomain.com, user2@mydomain.com and mydocumentlibrary@mysharepointserver.mydomain.com, then the users will get their mail but the public folder will not get the email. > >Is this by design? If you haven't modified the client permissions on the public folder so the "Anonymous" user has the "Contributor" role, yes, it's "by design". --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

I had set this up, but double checked and sure enough, had set up the contact wrong. Set it up correctly, and it is now exhibiting the same problem: can send from outlook directly to the contact and it ends up in the document library as planned. If I send to the public folder it does not go to the document library; does not show up in the drop (or queue) folders in inetpub on the sharepoint smtp install.

I checked, and for some reason it was set to custom. I switched it to "contributor" which only added view folder permissions. Tested; same problem.

I sent a couple of more test messages and used the message tracking center. First I removed all email addresses from the forwarding rule on the public folder. When a message is forwarded just to the document library, I can see where the message dies in the tracking center. The last reported stop when I open the message detail is SMTP: Message Submitted to Categorizer. When sending to the same contact from outlook the message is delivered; the next step in tracking center is SMTP: Message Categorized and Queued for Routing. It is then routed for remote deliver to the SMTP service on my sharepoint server.

I also killed all Trend Micro processes on the Exchange server and am still stalling at "Message Submitted to Categorizer".

Got it: In exchange manager: Global Settings > Internet Message Formats > Properties of Default > Advanced tab > Allow Automatic Forward.