Re: "Send as" works incorrectly

From: Rocks (rocks12_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 06:45:22 -0500

Boris Lokhvitsky wrote:

> This may seem a silly question, but Internet is surprisingly full of
> descriptions of problems that people have when tryinmg to use the "send
> as" feature. I am troubleshooting my own case for the fair two days
> already, still getting some weird results. So, if somebody can help...
> here goes.
>
> Exchange 2003 SP1 on Windows 2003. Client - Outlook 2003 (connected as RPC
> over HTTPS though I think it doesn't matter).
> Two users - UserA and UserB. Both are just ordinary users, members of
> "Domain Users" group only. UserB account is disabled.
> UserA needs to be able to send e-mails as if they are coming from UserB -
> specifying the UserB in the "From" field when composing an e-mail.
>
> Theer are multiple solutions described in MS KB articles. All different,
> and articles Q327000, 327174, and 281208 even contradict each other
> describing where security permission "Send as" should be applied - all
> saying different things.
>
> In my case, I did the following:
> 1. In UserB properties, Security tab, click Advanced and grant the "Send
> As" permission to UserA, select "Apply onto" - "User objects".
> 2. In UserB properties, Exchange Advanced, Mailbox rights, grant full
> mailbox access rights to UserA. This doesn't seem to be necessary but
> shouldn't hurt anyway.
>
> It works fine if UserA is member of Exchange administrators group
> (Exchange View Only Admin role). However, it doesn't work when he is
> removed from this group. I get error message "You don't have permissions
> to perform this operation on that object" when clicking the "Send" button.
>
> Can anybody help? Not only to make it work, finally, but to bring clarity
> what is the necessary and sufficient set of rights/privileges for the user
> to be able to "send as" other user within the same Exchange organization?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Boris

After you added the permissions how long did you wait before trying to
Send-As? I have run into this before and can't explain why but if we let
this sit for about 2hrs it works.

Pat