Hi, I have a consultant who very rarely checks his mailbox but has any mail forwarded out to his personal email account. For this particular consultant I want our exchange 2003 system to reply to any sender saying that "your email has been received but not necessarily read". I then want the system to forward a standard template email out to his personal account notifying him that he has got an email in his mailbox. I know that you can do this in outlook with a server side rule, but I have tried and tried with differnt versions to get it to work and it doesn't. I have also found several articles saying that there are problems with this particlular implimentation - including MS - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=292906. Anyway - is there a relatively easy way to automate this with a script? I suppose the system just needs to watch for any emails going to the consultant and then reply and forward? I have next to none development experience but if I am given the correct advise and information I should be able to get it done? Many thanks and sorry for the war and peace email. Niall.
If your looking for the simplest solution for say one account then you could use something that polled the mailbox in question every 5 minutes and then respond/forward any email it finds and then sets a property on any email it processes so it doesn't process them twice. You can use any of the Exchange API's from CDO 1.2 , WebDAV or Exoledb to access mail in a inbox and take action . The best place to start would be the Exchange SDK which you can download from http://msdn.microsoft.com/exchange and www.cdolive.com . You do need to be carefully with your logic as its very easy to get into loops if you start automatically responding to automatic responses. The other way you could do this is with an Exchange Store event sink. Cheers Glen "Niall" wrote in message news:587DF574-B950-464F-8499-746597334E6E@microsoft.com... > Hi, > > I have a consultant who very rarely checks his mailbox but has any mail > forwarded out to his personal email account. > For this particular consultant I want our exchange 2003 system to reply to > any sender saying that "your email has been received but not necessarily > read". I then want the system to forward a standard template email out to > his > personal account notifying him that he has got an email in his mailbox. > I know that you can do this in outlook with a server side rule, but I have > tried and tried with differnt versions to get it to work and it doesn't. I > have also found several articles saying that there are problems with this > particlular implimentation - including MS - > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=292906. > Anyway - is there a relatively easy way to automate this with a script? > I suppose the system just needs to watch for any emails going to the > consultant and then reply and forward? > I have next to none development experience but if I am given the correct > advise and information I should be able to get it done? > > Many thanks and sorry for the war and peace email. > > Niall.
Thanks Glen, I will look into those options. I appreciate your input. Niall. "Glen Scales [MVP]" wrote: > If your looking for the simplest solution for say one account then you could > use something that polled the mailbox in question every 5 minutes and then > respond/forward any email it finds and then sets a property on any email it > processes so it doesn't process them twice. You can use any of the Exchange > API's from CDO 1.2 , WebDAV or Exoledb to access mail in a inbox and take > action . The best place to start would be the Exchange SDK which you can > download from http://msdn.microsoft.com/exchange and www.cdolive.com . You > do need to be carefully with your logic as its very easy to get into loops > if you start automatically responding to automatic responses. The other way > you could do this is with an Exchange Store event sink. > > Cheers > Glen > > > "Niall" wrote in message > news:587DF574-B950-464F-8499-746597334E6E@microsoft.com... > > Hi, > > > > I have a consultant who very rarely checks his mailbox but has any mail > > forwarded out to his personal email account. > > For this particular consultant I want our exchange 2003 system to reply to > > any sender saying that "your email has been received but not necessarily > > read". I then want the system to forward a standard template email out to > > his > > personal account notifying him that he has got an email in his mailbox. > > I know that you can do this in outlook with a server side rule, but I have > > tried and tried with differnt versions to get it to work and it doesn't. I > > have also found several articles saying that there are problems with this > > particlular implimentation - including MS - > > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=292906. > > Anyway - is there a relatively easy way to automate this with a script? > > I suppose the system just needs to watch for any emails going to the > > consultant and then reply and forward? > > I have next to none development experience but if I am given the correct > > advise and information I should be able to get it done? > > > > Many thanks and sorry for the war and peace email. > > > > Niall. > > >
