Re: Exchange routing incoming mail incorrectly

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Believe me I would love to. Ha! what comes of working for a poxy company eh?

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Regards,
David Hartry
MCSE
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"Matt Gibson" <mattg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Unless you've got a good reason to stick with the POP3 connector, move to
> SMTP.
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> Matt Gibson - GSEC
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> "D Hartry" <d_hartry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eawR0ewdFHA.3712@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
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> Over the weekend upgraded SBS 2000 to SBS 2003 including Exchange 2003.
> Also applied latest service packs. POP3 connector is configured with a
> global mailbox and routing rules for incoming mail. The problem we are
> having is incoming mail is sometimes routed incorrectly - and it seems
> that Exchange is getting confused between usernames and email addresses
> when routing the mail... sounds strange? I will give you an example:
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> All the users at this site have email addresses in the format
> initials@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx So we have one user les@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Now we
> have another two users whose email addresses are drl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx &
> tjl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx They happen to both have the same surname, 'Lester'.
> Their NT usernames are lester and lester2. Problem is that email to
> les@xxxxxxxxxxxxx keeps going into either of the two mailboxes of the
> Lester users. Seems like too much of a coincidence to me that email for
> les@... is going into mailboxes of users whose usernames both begin les...
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> Please help - I am by no means an Exchange expert!
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> Regards,
> David Hartry
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