To be more specific on David's reply; Create a CONTACT account on your exchange server Give the account an SMTP e-mail address On the SMTP address parameters page fill in the foreign (eg hotmail) address Set the rule for forwarding and select the CONTACT as the recipient This should sort you out Regards Arnold -----Original Message----- From: Littlejohn, David [mailto:dlittlejohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Mon 15/07/2002 5:18 PM To: [ExchangeList] Cc: Subject: [exchangelist] RE: I cannot automatically forward mails to exter nal addresses using rule http://www.MSExchange.org/ Easiest thing to do would be to make a custom recipient in your Exchange server. The custom recipient can be an outside address and will reside on the global address list. Setup the rule to forward to the custom recipient and that should solve the problem. Regards David Littlejohn IT Department Claremont Management Corporation Tel: (508) 279-4303 Fax: (508) 279-3495 -----Original Message----- From: Krishna Kumar [mailto:k.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 9:41 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] I cannot automatically forward mails to external addresses using rule http://www.MSExchange.org/ I created a rule to forward mails to my hotmail. I didn't specify any condition, so that it should forward all new messages. I works if I use an internal address to forward. But it is not working for external addresses. Our mail server is Exchange 2000 and client is Outlook 2000. Please help me to solve this problem. ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: dlittlejohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-exchangelist-896136H@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: arnold.masaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-exchangelist-896136H@xxxxxxxxxxxxx