I have a situation where i'll need to forward incoming mail for a subset of accounts on our domain to outside addresses(addresses that are not part of the domain - like webmail accounts). I normally do this through a mail enabled contact to an outside smtp address and then have mail for the domain account forwarded to that contact. In this case the destination server that the AD mail accounts sit on is going to be decommissioned. Will the mail still route from the AD account to the contact if the mail server for those accounts is decommisioned.(there are 10 exchange 2k3 servers in the domain. There is a master bridghead that routes incoming mail to the member servers. The server where the accounts reside and that is being decommisioned is a member server). Thanks

Hi, If the destination domain is going to be decommissioned your mail will be bounceback because there is no domain exist.Dinesh

Hi, Did you mean the AD mail accounts located on the database base of the member server which would be decommissioned? If so, that will not affect the forward behaviour since it's resolved on the Expand DL phase under Categorise. That's on the same level. Thanks Allen