Forward Emails - Distribution group setup Question

Question

Using Exchange 2013. We have a user in AD called Purchasing User that has email address of
[email protected] and mailbox in Exchange. We want any emails that go to
[email protected] to be forwarded to (3) other recipients in the same AD (internal users).  In Exchange we tried creating a Distribution Group with those 3 members, that we could forward to, but when that
Group gets created it automatically created an email address called
[email protected]  (that does not exist at our Email host) and the forwarding failed.
1. Are we instead supposed to create the group in AD?
2. When the recipients get the email, will they see the sender's information or will they see the DG info--we want them to see the sender's info.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Did you try setting the forward from the powershell? If not please creating a group and try the below command.
Set-Mailbox –identity [email protected] –ForwardingAddress [email protected] delivertomailboxandforward $true
If you don't want to deliver to the original mailbox type "deliverytomailboxandforward $false" at the end
If you dont want to forward without delivering to the original mailbox, I would suggest you to delete the [email protected] mailbox, Create a distribution group with email address [email protected] and add the required members to the group.
Thanks, MAS
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