Paul, How can an email message authenticate itself to be delivered to a public folder? Because no credentials can be defined, anonymous access must granted in order for mail to be delivered. The anonymous user has to have create privs, it does not have to have read privs. This means mail can be delivered, but once it is delivered, no one else can read it. If this is insufficient, you can have the mail delivered to a mailbox and have a mailbox rule move the message to the public folder. I disagree with public folders being 10 times worse. Microsoft has given us the capability to cascade permissions (as well as other attributes) from a folder to all of its children. While this is more like the NT model than Windows 2000 inheritance, it is still much better than Exchange 5.5. By default a public folder has the following 5 tabs: General, Replication, Limits, Details and Permissions. If the public folder is mail enabled it will also have Email Addresses, Exchange Advanced, Exchange General and Member Of. In Exchange 2003 public folders are not given mailing addresses by default. When you mail enable a public folder, you then see the additional 4 tabs. Hope this helps! Denny ________________________________ From: paul_lemonidis@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:paul_lemonidis@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:51 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Exchange 2003 Public folders http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hi all Any light that could be shed on this would be very much appreciated. I have tried looking it up in books and at muiple TechNet articles to no avail. The whole subject seems to suffer from a complete lack of decent documentation. Many thanks in advance. Regards. Paul Lemonidis. ----- Original Message ----- From: paul_lemonidis@xxxxxxxxxxx To: [ExchangeList] <mailto:exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:39 AM Subject: Exchange 2003 Public folders Hi all Exchange 2003 and public folders seem a complete nightmare with little if any logic to the permissions structure in regard of emailing to them. I am having issues with users sending messages to public folders. The fact that you can drag and drop to a folder but the same user cannot send to it even when logged on and online seems utter stupidity quite honestly. TechNet article 319735 says to grant the anonymous user create permissions? Surely at that point you can forget security altogether? AD security except if you want to send email to public folders, in that event you simply have no security as absolutely anyone would be able send to it surely? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319753&Product=e xch2003 <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319753&Product= exch2003> The other thing that baffles some is why do some folders have an extra four tabs in Exchange System Manger MMC. Can anyone shed any light on my nightmare please. Public folders were not exactly nice in 5.5 but they now seem to be 10 times worse! Many thanks in advance. Regards, Paul Lemonids. ------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------