Sending mails to a restricted DL from a Public Folder

Hi gents,

We're currently working with an Exch 2010 instance and got a request for which we can't find a solution.

We've a DL which is senders restricted to avoid the overflow of mails due to the amount of users in this DL.

Here's the challenge :

We have a user which is member of a public folder and she wants to send mails on behalf of that PF to the restricted DL.

How can we arrange this access as she doesn't need to send the mail from her private address ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

March 25th, 2015 11:11am

Hi,

We can try the following steps (supposing the \testPF is the Public Folder, Test1 is the user who want to send mails on behalf of that PF to the restricted DL, the domain is CU1.com):

1. Mail-Enable this Public Folder:

Enable-MailPublicFolder -Identity "\testPF"

2. Assign Send As permission to the user:

Add-ADPermission -Identity "CN=testPF,CN=Microsoft Exchange System Objects,DC=CU1,DC=com" -User Test1 -ExtendedRights "Send As"

3. Restart Microsoft Exchange Information Store service.

4. Add this Public Folder to the senders restricted list:

a.Run the following command in the Exchange Management Shell to create a new distribution group:

New-DistributionGroup "PFGroup"

b.Run the following command to add the public folder to the new distribution group:

Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "PFGroup" -Member "testPF@cu1.com"

c.Run the following command to add the new distribution group to the Only senders in the following list field of the target distribution group:

Set-DistributionGroup -Identity "DG10" -AcceptMessagesOnlyFromSendersOrMembers @{Add="PFGroup"}

Regards,

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March 26th, 2015 5:40am

Hi Winnie,

Sorry for the delay and thanks for the answer.

I finally went through another way as I used a functionnal mailbox instead of a public folder.

I tried many things, even the process you proposed, however, I kept experiencing problems to give access to the PF to send mails to a restricted DL.

As said, I finally used a functionnal mailbox which was previously used for the same dept and modified the smtp address to have the correct one.

Thanks anyway for your help.

Cheers

August 19th, 2015 11:52am

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