Have you ever wanted to forward your work (exchange) email to your gmail hotmail yahoo etc account? I have been wanting to forever. I finally figured it out. (You’ll need to be a domain & exchange admin for this)
1. Check correct service is running
(On your Exchange Server) Check that Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service is running. If it is not, manually start it. (run services.msc)
2. Create new mail contact
From Exchange Management Shell, input the following: (for example)
New-MailContact -Name “Jack Burton-external” -ExternalEmailAddress “good.ol.jack.burton@gmail.com”
or
From EMC (Exchange Mgmt Console) create new Mail Contact:
a) Open Recipient configuration, and right click on Mail Contact
b) Choose “new mail contact>next>
c) Input name (make it different to exchange email name (eg for Jack Burton do Jack Burton-external)
d) Choose edit on external email address>type in email address (keep SMTP)
e) Complete it.
3. Forward mail to new mail contact
a) Open Recipient Configuration, and right click on Mailbox
b) Right click>properties on your exchange email contact (whose mail you want to forward)
c) Choose mail flow settings>delivery options>properties
d) Tick “forward to”, then browse, choose new mail contact.
e) ok, ok, ok. done!
Test it out!!! It worked perfectly for me!
Thanks to the people in the following posts for their priceless help!!
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=994013&SiteID=17
http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2008/02/how-to-forward-mail-to-external-email.html
