Question : How can I set up an auto-responder to let senders know that a new address should be used?

For several years, my manager has used [email protected] for his primary address.  However, our company has since re-arranged and he would now like to switch over to [email protected].

abcdomain.com still exists, while XYZdomain.com is for a company that has been newly created, and I have full control over both.  I've since set up forwarding such that any email that now arrives in his [email protected] account is automatically forwarded to [email protected].

But it would be nice if we could somehow set up [email protected] so that anyone who sends to it gets an automatic reply with the message, "Please note that the NEW address used by 'boss' is [email protected]"

is there an easy way to do this?  Am I limited to Outlook rules?

Answer : How can I set up an auto-responder to let senders know that a new address should be used?

If your mail for both domains is sent directly to your server then you can do the following:

Setup a separate user account to handle the [email protected] addresses and turn on out-of-office to tell them of the change of email address and that the message has automatically been forwarded, auto-forward the email from [email protected] to [email protected], then you will have your solution wrapped up.

If you get spammers sending mail to the old address, then there will be some rogue messages trying to be sent, but such is life.