I had a user which had his email forwarded to gmail.com. Latly i disabled that option via ECP and it has no such settings as forwarding. But then his emails never get into his mailbox.
HARED... SMTP test@poland.pl {account@reprezenta... T34
RECEIVE SMTP test@poland.pl {account@reprezenta... T34
RESOLVE ROUTING test@poland.pl {Account@rs.pl} T34
REDIRECT AGENT test@poland.pl {Account@rs.pl} T34
EXPAND AGENT test@poland.pl {account.r@gmail.com} T34
AGENT... AGENT test@poland.pl {Account@rs.pl, account... T34
RESUBMIT AGENT test@poland.pl {Account@rs.pl, account... T34
DROP ROUTING test@poland.pl {account.r@gmail.com} T34
AGENT... AGENT test@poland.pl {account.r@gmail.com} T34
And this is with forwarding disabled. Yet if i go again to ECP and I see this message:
If the fields are empty when I am setting them up why show this message?
I can confirm now with:
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-Mailbox | Where {$_.ForwardingAddress -ne $null}
Name Alias ServerName ProhibitSendQuota
---- ----- ---------- -----------------
Account account exchange Unlimited
But I've even run following command:
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-Mailbox | Where {$_.ForwardingAddress -ne $null} | Set-Mailbox -ForwardingAddress $null -De
liverToMailboxAndForward $false
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-Mailbox | Where {$_.ForwardingAddress -ne $null}
No results. I go into GUI the forwarding address is cleaned.
I set it again just for test and again message about forwarding email being there.
So what's wrong? It's Exchange 2013 -> Version 15.0 (Build 775.38). So CU3.
Best Answer
So i went further with this investigation. The thing here to check was:
forwardingsmtpaddress
which wasn't empty.Which seems to stay set even thou it was disabled via GUI. After I cleaned it up it started working correctly. Why would GUI unchecking and even powershell commands not work as they should when
forwardingsmtpaddress
is a bit over my head. It seems to be a bug in Exchange 2013 CU3 as far as I can tell.This cleaned it up (although it only works when forwarding was enabled). I would be happy to know why this is why it is. I did some checking and it seems the field
forwardingsmtpaddress
doesn't get set when setting up contact forwarding so why was it set this time. Oh well. Hopefully someone will find it useful.