Re: Cannot find a user's email address in Exchange 5.5 SP4

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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:18:05 -0700, "Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Andy,
>
>I got to the client today and was able to find the mystery address that was
>stopping me fro creating the custom recipient. The last admin had created
>several hidden users. Thanks for all your help...the forwarding works
>perfectly.
>
Excellent. Good to hear.


>Gregg Hill
>
>
>
>"Andy David - Exchange MVP" <adavid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>message news:td61h110vf1os37de7l8um81vmoelhhbho@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:22:41 -0700, "Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Hello!
>>>
>>>I have a client who asked to have a forwarding email created using their
>>>Exchange 5.5 SP4 server. I am not familiar with Exchange 5.5, but many
>>>Google posts suggested using a Custom Recipient to forward inbound domain
>>>mail to her pacbell.net account. I tried that but could not get it to work
>>>until I first added a domain account for the user. Amazing that I could
>>>not
>>>find ONE post that said to do that first, but that was not from a lack of
>>>trying.
>>
>> You do not need to setup a domain account to accomplish this. Create a
>> custom recipient with both the internal and external SMTP address and
>> set the target account ( thats the one listed one the first screen of
>> the CR) as the external address. Then any mail mail received by your
>> exchange server will then be routed back out to the external address.
>> If the user also has a mailbox on your system, then do what you did
>> already and simply forward the email as an alternate recipient.
>>>
>>>Anyway, I first set up a domain account for myself and a Custom Recipient
>>>with my Yahoo address in it to verify if forwarding works. It did (after
>>>allowing automatic replies to the Internet). Then, I set up a domain
>>>account
>>>for "Jane Doe" as jane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, then **tried to** set up a Custom
>>>Recipient with her pacbell email address, but I got an error saying that
>>>the
>>>user already exists in this organization.
>>>
>>>I checked all 30 users' email accounts and I cannot find her address in
>>>any
>>>of them. That name and address is not listed in the Global Address List.
>>>
>>>Does anyone know a way to export ALL email addresses in use on the
>>>Exchange
>>>server that would show me where the address is hiding?
>>
>> The easiest way might be to simply create a new email, enter the SMTP
>> address and see what it resolves to. Or send an email to that SMTP
>> address with a delivery receipt. The display name with be in that
>> receipt. If all fail, export the addresses out via the admin gui
>> adding ensuring also that you export the secondary addresses and
>> search the results.
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;153028
>>
>>
>>>
>>>Thank you for your help!
>>>
>>>Gregg Hill
>>>
>>>
>
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