hi, We have Exchange 2007 in our organization. We have a mail enabled public folder. We want to set Auto replies for recipients outside our organization domain and they should receive auto replies everytime they send a mail to that mail enabled mailbox. So there are two conditions we require : 1) Auto Replies everytime to the user who sends a mail to that mail enabled public folder 2) The Auto Replies should go only to users, who are outside our exchange organization, it shoudn't go to users inside our organization. Can anyone tell how we can achieve these two things together? Thanks.Pallab Chakraborty

I would create a hub transport rule for this. If you dig around in the rules wizard, you'll see the options to accomplish it.

I would create a hub transport rule for this. If you dig around in the rules wizard, you'll see the options to accomplish it. Agrees To Andy. Organisation Configuration -> Trasport Rules will help you accomplish the sameAbhi

Hi, I want to create auto replies on a mail enabled public folder for external users, not on a user mailbox. Can it be done with Hub Transport Rule? PallabPallab Chakraborty

Get-Mailpublicfolder reply | Add-ADpermission -user myalias -ExtendedRights "send as" It worked great. I was able to modify the FolderAssistant of the public folder, and create a "reply to everyone with this template" rule.

Hi, In Exchange 2007, there is no transport rule related to auto reply. But, transport rule can forward emails received from outside organization to some address. You can set the fake mailbox as the same name as the public folder. And then configure transport rule to forward emails from organization to the fake account. And then set auto reply in fake account using Outlook rule. Hope this helps. ThanksSophia Xu

So what you are saying is i will have a fake mailbox with the same name as the mail enabled public folder. So when a user replies from an organization outside my exchange organization to the mail enabled public folder address, i will set a transport rule to forward those emails to the fake mailbox having the same name. After that, i will configure an Auto Reply for those external users in the fake mailbox. Is that what you are trying to say ? But can i have a mail enabled public folder and a fake mailbox with the same SMTP address in Exchange 2007? And if a user replies to the mail enabled public folder, where will the mail come to, is it the mail enabled public folder or the fake mailbox?Pallab Chakraborty

So what you are saying is i will have a fake mailbox with the same name as the mail enabled public folder. So when a user replies from an organization outside my exchange organization to the mail enabled public folder address, i will set a transport rule to forward those emails to the fake mailbox having the same name. After that, i will configure an Auto Reply for those external users in the fake mailbox. Is that what you are trying to say ? But can i have a mail enabled public folder and a fake mailbox with the same SMTP address in Exchange 2007? And if a user replies to the mail enabled public folder, where will the mail come to, is it the mail enabled public folder or the fake mailbox? Pallab Chakraborty What you could do is create a hub transport rule that copies the message to a mail-enabled pf or mailbox ( with a different SMTP address of course) and also rejects the message and in the rejection message is the auto-reply message. Alternatively, simply create the mail-enabled pf , create the auto-reply, allow auto-replies to the internet and then look at creating a transport rule that drops any message from that PF to anyone insdie the org and see if that works.