Forward Exchange 2013 Emails To External Contact (Solved).

Previously (before CU2) send email in exchange 2013 to an external contact via power shell, Now you can do it via the EAC also.  It is shown below we can do it via the EAC first,  you can furhur scroll down to see how to forward an email to a contact in Exchange 2013 powershell .

Send Email To An External Contact Via GUI / ECP

Start the EAC and create a new Mail Contact in Exchange 2013 with the correct name and External SMTP email address.

Recipients > Contacts

Now browse to the mailbox that you would like to forward mail from to the new external contact and choose edit, then select Mailbox Features and then Mail Flow.

Now Recipient > Mailboxes > mailbox > Mailbox Features > Mail Flow

Now enable Mail Forwarding , select the Mail Contact we created in the earlier step.

You can do it quickly using powershell. Following are the commands on how to forward email in exchange to external contacts 2013 in power shell.

Exchange 2013 Powershell – Forward To External Contact

Command.

Set-Mailbox -Identity "Allen" -DeliverToMailboxAndForward $true -ForwardingSMTPAddress allen@hotmail.com

Description.

The command above will forward all emails from the mailbox “Allen” to Allen@hotmail.com and also leave a copy of the email in the Allen mailbox in Exchange 2013

Set-Mailbox -Identity “Allen” -DeliverToMailboxandforward $False -ForwardingSMTPAddress $Null -ForwardingAddress $Null

The command above will STOP the forward of all emails from the mailbox “Allen” to Allen@hotmail.com due to the $false command.

Note: After the -deliver use the “TAB” button to see all forwarding options.

And You're done (y).