geggle
23-04-2004, 01:30 PM
Goal
We have several high-volume mailing lists that distribute server log extracts to the development team for monitoring and diagnosis purposes. The mail environment is Outlook and Exchange.
I'd like these mailing lists to be implemented as a shared mailbox stored on the server so that we can have automated archiving and so that members of the development team do not have these emails cluttering their inbox.
I'd like to know the best solution for configuring this. It would appear that for each chared mailbox I need: A universal security group to specify the people allowed to access the mailbox.
A user for the shared mailbox.
Grant the appropriate permissions on the mailbox (whatever they are) to the security group.Is this the best way to achieve the shared mailbox? Is there a better way?
I'd further like to automatically save the attachments of the emails sent to these lists as files on an NFS file system. From what I can tell, I need to set up an event sink to process the incoming messages (fortunately, they will all originate externally via SMTP, so an event sink solution would work.)
Also, as you can see, I know next to nothing about Active Directory, so a tutorial on it with lots of examples would be good. All I've found so far seems to deal with either trivial examples, or excessively complex multi-domain examples!
Specific information:
Windows server running: Windows Small Business Server 2003
Exchange (Version 6.5.6944.4)
Windows Services for Unix 3.0
Client PCs all run: Windows XP
Outlook 2003 (Version 11.5608.5606)
We have several high-volume mailing lists that distribute server log extracts to the development team for monitoring and diagnosis purposes. The mail environment is Outlook and Exchange.
I'd like these mailing lists to be implemented as a shared mailbox stored on the server so that we can have automated archiving and so that members of the development team do not have these emails cluttering their inbox.
I'd like to know the best solution for configuring this. It would appear that for each chared mailbox I need: A universal security group to specify the people allowed to access the mailbox.
A user for the shared mailbox.
Grant the appropriate permissions on the mailbox (whatever they are) to the security group.Is this the best way to achieve the shared mailbox? Is there a better way?
I'd further like to automatically save the attachments of the emails sent to these lists as files on an NFS file system. From what I can tell, I need to set up an event sink to process the incoming messages (fortunately, they will all originate externally via SMTP, so an event sink solution would work.)
Also, as you can see, I know next to nothing about Active Directory, so a tutorial on it with lots of examples would be good. All I've found so far seems to deal with either trivial examples, or excessively complex multi-domain examples!
Specific information:
Windows server running: Windows Small Business Server 2003
Exchange (Version 6.5.6944.4)
Windows Services for Unix 3.0
Client PCs all run: Windows XP
Outlook 2003 (Version 11.5608.5606)