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Email Address Policies - Custom Addresses? - 23.Jul.2008 12:21:16 PM

Ente

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I have a policy that uses an SMTP address with the following syntax:

%m@local.domain.com

What syntax do I need to use to add another SMTP address that uses a domain that is NOT one of the Accepted Domains?

I'd like to use %m@domain.com, but I get an error saying the SMTP address is not an existing Accepted Domain configured on the server.

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RE: Email Address Policies - Custom Addresses? - 23.Jul.2008 2:59:16 PM

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You can't set email addresses that are not part of the accepted domains list. That would be rather pointless as you would be sending email out which the server doesn't receive back.

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RE: Email Address Policies - Custom Addresses? - 24.Jul.2008 4:43:43 PM

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Yeah agreed. What I'm trying to do is set the default recipient SMTP address to a domain that does not exist on the Exchange server. Its not a big deal, they can configure this on the client side.

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RE: Email Address Policies - Custom Addresses? - 25.Jul.2008 6:28:16 AM

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That isn't possible on Exchange. Exchange isn't designed to work in that way.

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RE: Email Address Policies - Custom Addresses? - 5.Aug.2008 5:13:23 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Sembee

That isn't possible on Exchange. Exchange isn't designed to work in that way.

Simon.

I disagree, I have a UNIX box that sits between the internet and the exchange server that handles all the mail for @mydomain.com and forwards mail to @machinename.mydomain.com. However All my users send using @mydomain.com addresses.

Doing what Ente is asking would save me manually unticking the "use email Policy" and manually adding the @mydomain.com address for the user and setting it as the reply addy!

Regards

Charlie

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RE: Email Address Policies - Custom Addresses? - 6.Aug.2008 12:03:07 PM

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What do you disagree about?

You are referring to an UNIX machine. That isn't Exchange. Exchange is not designed to work in the way that has been outlined. Exchange is designed to work with email on its own. It doesn't need a Unix machine in front of it. As such if the domain is not listed then you cannot set it as a reply to address.

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RE: Email Address Policies - Custom Addresses? - 6.Aug.2008 12:23:14 PM

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Hi Simon...

I am not refering to a UNIX machine...

In Exchange you can untick the "Automatically update email addresses based on email address policy" and enter mickey@mouse.com, any user in the organisation can send to that address and it will be delivered to the account with that email address added to it.

You could even set it as reply and the user would be sending out emails with that email address!..

therefore you do not have to have a domain in the "accepted domains" to add it and set it as reply in exchange..

receiving email to that address is a different ball game of course... that is where my Unix box comes in to play by forwarding the mail to an accepted domain in the exchange environment which does not have to be the "set as reply" email address.

Cheers

Charlie

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RE: Email Address Policies - Custom Addresses? - 6.Aug.2008 12:51:18 PM

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Hey Charlie,
In Exchange 2007 you cannot add a custom domain to a recipient policy unless you have defined it as an accepted domain first - this is by design in Exchange 2007.

Attempting to do so will give you the following error:

Summary: 2 item(s). 0 succeeded, 1 failed.
Elapsed time: 00:00:01

Edit Default Policy
Failed
Error:
The SMTP address template 'smtp:%m@jbilbo.com' is invalid because it references a domain that is not an accepted domain.
Exchange Management Shell command attempted:
set-EmailAddressPolicy -Instance 'Default Policy'
Elapsed Time: 00:00:01

Apply Default Policy
Cancelled

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RE: Email Address Policies - Custom Addresses? - 7.Aug.2008 4:22:05 AM

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Hi,

Yes, I totally agree... you cant add it to a policy unless it is an accepted domain.

I dont mean to be contradictive, but I was giving the original poster a way around it.

Recently i had to add an exchange 2007 server to an existing UNIX mail system. The customer wanted to keep the UNIX MTA as it handled his external mailing lists better. But he wanted all his users to be using Exchange.

The UNIX MTA was configured with his main domain (domainA) and it accepted all incoming mail. So I configured the exchange system with a different domain (domainB). The customer wanted all his users to send as domainA. domain B was added as the accepted domain. BUT if I had added domainA to the accepted doamins anyone in the exchange environment that tried to send to a mailing list on the UNIX system it would have failed!

So I configured the UNIX MTA to forward user1@domainA.com to user1@domainB.com. This was obviously accepted by the exchange server and delivered to the correct account.

But by default Exchange had configured all the users with address @domainB.com and as you have all rightly pointed out you cant add a domain to the policy that is not an accepted domain on the Exchange server. So I had to add an @domainA.com address to each account and make it the set as reply! (By unticking the "Automatically update email addresses based on email address policy" and setting it as reply)

I apologies for my wording of my original post (saying i disagree) I was mearly pointing out that there was an alternative way of doing what the original user was asking.

Thanks again

Charlie

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RE: Email Address Policies - Custom Addresses? - 7.Aug.2008 1:42:23 PM

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Hey Charlie, don't apologise - it is always good to get clarification on things - now I think that I can see what you are getting at;
Essentially are you are saying that rather than add a recipient policy in Exchange (and create an accepted domain) you can get the Unix MTA to re stamp the message as an intermediary step - that considered it would indeed be another way of doing it.

Cheers

A

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RE: Email Address Policies - Custom Addresses? - 8.Aug.2008 5:13:47 AM