Here's the situation:
We have a printer that can scan a document and email that scanned document as a pdf attachment. Currently the way I have accomplished this is to create a resource mailbox for our printer and assign it an SMTP address. By default, a resource mailbox is linked to a disabled Active Directory account. So I went into Active Directory Users and Computers and enabled the AD account linked to the resource mailbox and set a password on it. After that, I went to the printer and configured its SMTP settings with the AD credentials (AD user name, smtp email address, AD password).
This has been working absolutely perfectly. But before I consider it a settled question, I wanted to know if this is considered an acceptable, reasonable practice. I'd also like to know if there's a different way of accomplishing this that is a 'best practice'.
Lastly, I'd like to know if the printer's AD account were to be disable again, would the printer still be able to send scans using the credentials I have provided it?
