Hey Marco, It would be easier if you don't delete the former co-worker's account. Then you can set on exchange general tab on AD, delivery, and set it to forward all mail to another guy. Just change the former co-worker's password and move it somewhere so it can be easy to identify that it is an disabled account. Mail will be coming for these ex-employees for quite a while... After a while all you'll receive is the ex-employee's spam ;) What we do here is to tell customers that the contact changed, etc... so we can deactivate once for all that old account. Before deleting, we exmerge it and archive it here. Hope it helps! Tiago de Aviz SoftSell (41) 340-2363 www.softsell.com.br <http://www.softsell.com.br/> Esta mensagem, incluindo seus anexos, tem caráter confidencial e seu conteúdo é restrito ao destinatário da mensagem. Caso você tenha recebido esta mensagem por engano, queira por favor retorná-la ao destinatário e apagá-la de seus arquivos. Qualquer uso não autorizado, replicação ou disseminação desta mensagem ou parte dela é expressamente proibido. A SoftSell não é responsável pelo conteúdo ou a veracidade desta informação. _____ From: Zentarra, Marco [mailto:marco.zentarra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: sexta-feira, 27 de fevereiro de 2004 06:32 To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] A clean way when a co-worker leaves... http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hey all! I´ve a question relating to the stuff which is to do, when a co-worker leaves the company... First of all I set up a forwarding from this users mailbox to another co-worker, who is still in the company. Then I deactivate the users ads account. After a period of time I delete the mailbox, so the forwarding isn't working anymore (ok,that's logic...) And every mail which arrives for the not existing user comes up in my admin mailbox. Is there a way to "map" all the SMTP-adresses the that user, where I set up the forwarding to? i.e.: We have Ex2K and several SMTP-adresses for each user (marco.zentarra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, marco.zentarra@xxxxxxx; marco.zentarra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, etc) The co-worker Tom Hanks leave the company, so I set up a forwarding from his mailbox to the mailbox of Bill Jones. So far, so good. After a period of time I delete the mailbox and user account of Tom Hanks, all mails to tom.hanks@....de come up in my admin mailbox. Is there a way to "map" all Tom Hanks mail addresses to Bill Jones? So this isn't a real forwarding anymore, but the point is that it isn't me who have to check these mails..... :-) TIA ( and I hope that you understand my weird English an my question...) Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards Marco Zentarra Systemadministrator ONLine Distributions GmbH Unna - München - Dresden Heinrich-Hertz-Str. 4 D-59423 Unna Fon 02303 - 98601-305 Fax 02303 - 98601-601 eMail marco.zentarra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:marco.zentarra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Web http://www.communication-companies.de <http://www.communication-companies.de/> ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------