you cant forward mail to an external account, its almost mail relaying and i dont think its possible.

I think (and i mean think cos its a long time since i tried) that you can forward internal only mail by creating a contact and setting the primary smtp address of the contact to the external address. thats not relaying.

but external to external is classed as relaying.

having said the above, theres so many different ways to cheat exchange, i wouldnt be surprised if you could get round it. an event sink would be one way off the top of my head...

Matt

Thanks

Heres what I did:

I made a new custom recipient; user@gmail.com. Open OOA, selected Im OOA and I made a rule to forward all msgs to the custom recipient.

I know you can do it server-side but my account doesnt have permission to set that up - probably cos the exhange server is flaky as feck and my boss dont want me messing with it. Also I was reading about mail loops so I didnt wanna go there anyway.

Anyhow, it aint a biggy cos the dude can just vpn in ..I need closure I guess