[pomc]

I am a BES Exchange admin and not familiar with Domino/Notes. I was asked the question of how to prevent Notes users from forwarding (using agents?) their email to their personal email accounts.

The reason for this is that some Notes users are purchasing their own Blackberries and forwarding their Notes mail to their carrier accounts and bypassing the BES. Apparently it is causing performance issues, not to mention those BBs are not receiving the security policies, etc.

Thanks for any info.

[BlackBerryLinks]

I think it is not so easy. You can stop users from creating agents/rules, but not only the forwarding. Why don't they deploy there own BES, so there is no need for external forwarding.

Regards,
Bob

[dev]

Here's some info on how agents work in Domino...it may not address the "forwarding" action by the users themselves. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...nts/index.html

[pomc]

They do have their own Domino BES server and I believe are upgrading from 2.1 to 4.0. As I understand the problem, people are just buying Blackberries and forwarding their Notes mail to the Blackberry via the carrier's web mail. So the users are bypassing the BES entirely and thus the devices are not receiving the security profile, etc.

I'm used to our Exchange environment where we do not allow mail to be forwarded to non .mil or .gov accounts.

Thanks.

[dev]

It is possible to deny messages to the carrier's web mail user accounts (usernname@vendor.blackberry.net).
Go to the respective mail server address book (NAB) and locate the Configuration tab, expand the Messaging section and select and open the Configuration document. Select the Router/SMTP->Restrictions&Controls->SMTP Outbound Controls section.
Outbound Recipient Controls. The following sections described below could be used to control outbound mail to the carrier's mail servers.
Allow messages only to recipients in the following Internet domains or hostnames:
Deny messages to recipients in the following Internet domains or hostnames:

[kmcphedran]

If you are running Domino 6.x, you can do it from here:

Open the Configuration document for the server(s) you want to stop this for.

Go to Router/SMTP - Restrictions/Controls - Delivery Controls - User rules mail forwarding - Set to Disabled.

Please note that this will disable it for internal Notes routing and for external (smtp) mail.