Re: email aliases

From: Ben Winzenz [Exchange MVP] (ben_winzenz_at_NOSPAMdotmessageonedotcom)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:56:42 -0600

If you want an e-mail address to be distributed to 5 people, then you will
want to use a Distribution Group. You assign the e-mail address to the
group, then add those users to the group.

For your second scenario, it is also possible. In order to do this, I use
the following steps.

1. Create (or assign) e-mail address of contact@company.com to a
mailbox-enabled user. (note: you *may* be able to create a contact to do
this with, but I can't verify that it works).
2. Create a new contact in Active directory that has the external e-mail
address assigned to it (me@hotmail.com)
3. In the properties of the user, under the Exchange General Tab, go to
Delivery Options, then check the button to "Forward To" - browse and select
the Contact from your Global Address List. (after this is done, you can hide
the contact or user if desired).
4. Optionally, define the setting to deliver a copy to both the forwarding
address and the mailbox. Done. 

-- 
Ben Winzenz
Exchange MVP
"Yatendra Khandelwal" <yatendra.khandelwal@ishisystems.com.(donotspam)> 
wrote in message news:C90411D1-5E20-4ED2-A7ED-17D6E5A25558@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for your reply. It solved half of my problems. The other half is 
> say I
> want to have an email alias (by alias i mean its just an email id without 
> any
> space allocated to it) like contact@mycompany.com tht is to be forwarded 
> to
> say 5 people, can this be done from one place and not by going to accounts 
> of
> all 5 ppl and adding a new smtp address for each. Also was just wondering 
> if
> it is possible to forward any email alias say contacts@mycompany.com to an
> outside email say me@hotmail.com.
> Thanks,
> Yatendra
>
> "Ben Winzenz [Exchange MVP]" wrote:
>
>> It still depends on if you are wanting to do this globally or not.  If 
>> you
>> want to add an alias to all users, such as first.last@company.com instead 
>> of
>> the default user@company.com, then you need to modify your default 
>> recipient
>> policy and add a new smtp address to that.  For instance, if you want the
>> naming convention as shown above, then you would add a new smtp address 
>> with
>> %g.%s@company.com (adds givenname.surname@company.com to all users). 
>> There
>> is more information on different formats in the Help file (F1).
>>
>> If, on the other hand, you simply want to add an additional alias to an
>> existing user account, then simply go to the properties of the account in
>> Active Directory Users & Computers, then go to the E-mail addresses tab, 
>> and
>> add the new address.  As long as the domain portion of the e-mail address 
>> is
>> defined in a recipient policy, that user can receive e-mail at the new
>> address.  Keep in mind that there can only be one *default* address (the 
>> one
>> in bold) that will be the reply-to address placed on all outgoing e-mail,
>> but you can have as many e-mail *aliases* as you want.
>>
>> -- 
>> Ben Winzenz
>> Exchange MVP
>>
>>
>> "Yatendra Khandelwal" <yatendra.khandelwal@ishisystems.com.(donotspam)>
>> wrote in message 
>> news:06D2A8E7-80F3-481C-AE48-CAE05B5BF313@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi Ben,
>> > Thanks for your reply. We are using exchange 2003 and yeah by alias I 
>> > mean
>> > simply another email address (something that can be easily remembered 
>> > like
>> > say first name) at the same domain so that whatever mail comes to this
>> > alias
>> > gets forwarded to the original account.
>> > Thanks,
>> > Yatendra
>> >
>> >
>> > "Ben Winzenz [Exchange MVP]" wrote:
>> >
>> >> What version of Exchange, and define what you mean by e-mail aliases. 
>> >> Do
>> >> you mean simply adding an additional e-mail address at the same 
>> >> domain?
>> >> For
>> >> only certain users, or all users?
>> >>
>> >> -- 
>> >> Ben Winzenz
>> >> Exchange MVP
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Yatendra Khandelwal" 
>> >> <yatendra.khandelwal@ishisystems.com.(donotspam)>
>> >> wrote in message
>> >> news:2CD9EB22-3E47-4845-A526-3DFB431FED19@microsoft.com...
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> > I was trying to find out how to make email aliases for for excisting
>> >> > accounts and couldnt find how to do it. Dies anyone have any idea 
>> >> > about
>> >> > it?
>> >> > Thanks in advance
>> >> > -- 
>> >> > Yatendra Khandelwal
>> >> > IshiSystems Inc.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
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