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Voila! Your public folder is configured to receive email and generate an autoreply.Because I couldn’t quickly find a good script/tool to make a report of my Public Folders that includes a complete drilldown including if they’re mail enabled, what email addresses it has, who has rights on the folder and what size the folders are, I’m sharing this script with you ?Įdit: added support for Exchange 2010, uncomment the correct section and comment the 2007 code if you run this on 2010. Test your autoreply by sending an email to the email enabled public folder When the autoreply is configured the folder assistant box will show a message reply rule listedĥ. When you are completed with the template click Save & Close.Ĥ. You are now presented with template to draft your autoreply.Check the “Reply” with Template box and click on the Template box.Open Outlook and locate the public folder that you want to configure an autoreply.Once you have verified that Public Folder can receive emails and has the correct permissions you can configure the autoreply using your Outlook client. Add-PublicFolderClientPermission “\SurveyFeedback” -AccessRights CreateItems -User Anonymousģ.Open Exchange Management Shell and use the following cmdlet.
To allow the Public folder to be able to receive emails from outside your network you will need to modify the permissions of the Public Folder.
Some organizations use mail-enabled Public folders as a common place to receive faxes, or external email messages similar to a Shared Mailbox. Mail-enabling a public folder is an easy step to complete that allows users to post email items simply by using an email address to send an email to the folder. A common feature of Public Folders that is used quite often is mail-enabling the public folder to receive emails. Most Exchange administrators are working towards moving off of public folders for their Exchange environment, but there are some enterprises that still use them. Exchange administrators have a love hate relationship with public folders.