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I was wondering if it is possible, in Exchange server 2010, to disable a mailbox account, lets call it mailuser and if anyone sends a E-mail for [email protected] then it will send a mail back with some sort of standard "This E-mail is no longer in use. Please write to [email protected] instead" mail.

I know I can create an "out-of-office" reply from the users outlook, but it would be so much faster to do it within the exchange server.

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Check out Hub Transport Rules, there is a really easy wizard there for configuring this.

Hints: "Apply rules to messages when a recipient's adress contains '[email protected]' send 'This E-mail address is no longer in use. Please contact [email protected] for further questions." to sender with '5.7.1'.

Edit: Just tested it, works just fine!

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  • Thanks so much Erik, it really did the trick, just what I was looking for. You saved the day :-)
    – Mestika
    May 26, 2010 at 8:48
  • FYI, these appear to have been added in Exchange 2007. Here are some MS reference links. Getting to Know Transport Rules in Exchange 2007 and Transport Rules: Exchange 2010 SP1
    – Zoredache
    Nov 17, 2010 at 23:24
  • This will require your email to still exist on the exchange. We solved this by moving it to contact, instead of mailbox.
    – Stoinov
    Dec 17, 2014 at 11:54
  • Can't get it to work. Which action did you use?
    – Dercni
    Aug 22, 2019 at 13:19

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