We are trying to setup students who graduate from our school so that
any incoming mail will be forwarded to a new address and if they have
not setup a forwarding address, their incoming mail will be deleted
with an out of office reply sent to the sender indicating that the
user is no longer a student and has not setup forwarding. Graduated
students would also not have OWA enabled as well. The one thing that
seems hard to do is to create a rule that will move all incoming mail
to the deleted items folder. Does anyone know of how to have all
incoming mail subject to a rule to move to deleted items?
Thanks,
Mario

We are trying to setup students who graduate from our school so that
any incoming mail will be forwarded to a new address and if they have
not setup a forwarding address, their incoming mail will be deleted
with an out of office reply sent to the sender indicating that the
user is no longer a student and has not setup forwarding. Graduated
students would also not have OWA enabled as well. The one thing that
seems hard to do is to create a rule that will move all incoming mail
to the deleted items folder. Does anyone know of how to have all
incoming mail subject to a rule to move to deleted items?

I would actually start by looking at the Exchange side of the house, rather
than Outlook. Forget rules, try and program it into Exchange using event
scripting. I'd try posting over in microsoft.public.exchange.admin as a
start. Rules just seems like a hack solution, as opposed to a programmatic
solution in the server that checks for a hidden account with a certain AD
variable set to 'Matriculated' and replies with a custom address.

Or, keeping it on Exchange without programming, for users who set up a forwarding
address, that's simple enough to configure on the AD user, for the users
who don't, set their forwarding address to a custom address you've configured
to auto reply with 'We're sorry, the user you tried to mail has left this
college and not supplied a forwarding address.'

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-f.h.