Exchange Transport Rules Questions

[MorganX]

Is there any way to have Exchange transport rules accept an environment variable such as %username%?

[sc302 Veteran]

what are you trying to do exactly?  Why would you want username vs display name or smtp address?

[MorganX]

what are you trying to do exactly?  Why would you want username vs display name or smtp address?

 

Just a quick and dirty way to stop anyone from sending out their logon name in say a phishing email. Usernames are easy enough to get, but they are usually accompanied by passwords. Even with environment variables passwords would be near impossible to filter.

[Tarrant64]

I only know of some of the variables for creating organization wide signatures, and the one closets to username would probably be %UserLogonName%

[sc302 Veteran]

So you want it to not send if they send their username?

with 2010 it should be %%UserLogonName%%

 

http://www.expta.com/2010/06/using-dynamic-signatures-in-exchange.html

[MorganX]

So you want it to not send if they send their username?

with 2010 it should be %%UserLogonName%%

 

http://www.expta.com/2010/06/using-dynamic-signatures-in-exchange.html

 

Thanks,

 

I saw in my research that you can use them to build a signature, just didn't know if they would work within the actual rule to prevent sending. Guess we'll just have to try. Thanks!

[MorganX]

So you want it to not send if they send their username?

with 2010 it should be %%UserLogonName%%

 

http://www.expta.com/2010/06/using-dynamic-signatures-in-exchange.html

Does not work as filter criterion. Too bad. Would be quite useful.

[sc302 Veteran]

You should also be able to make a transport rule sending those messages that contain that text to a mailbox. 

[MorganX]

You should also be able to make a transport rule sending those messages that contain that text to a mailbox. 

 

Yes you can, but the rule text takes the variables as literal text unfortunately. Otherwise, Exchange's Transport rules are quite excellent and flexible. We do filter CC numbers and a few other things with them.

[sc302 Veteran]

I will play with it and see if I can figure something out for you.

[sc302 Veteran]

Hmmm....you can only search via basic and regular expressions in the email subject and body not variables.  Well isn't that something.