Is the server overloaded? Do you have tarpitting turned on? IMF enabled? Exchange sends to a literal address just fine. ________________________________ From: Tom Kern [mailto:tpkern@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 1:31 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: email addy format http://www.MSExchange.org/ actually, i meant sending out to that addy, NOT accepting it. Thanks a lot! My smtp logs have a lot of RSET coming from the server from which that addy orginiates. What could that signify? Thanks alot again On 10/10/05, Michael B. Smith <michael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: http://www.MSExchange.org/ (1) Yes. As long as it is in a recipient policy. (2) Yes. But it takes a little work to make that happen. You have to script it, because the GUI doesn't allow you to enter it manually. Something like this: <job> <script language="VBScript"> Option Explicit </script> <script language="VBScript" src="lib/constants.vbs" /> <script language="VBScript" src="lib/ado.vbs" /> <script language="VBScript" src="lib/report.vbs" /> <script language="VBScript"> ' ' This program adds a new non-primary proxyaddress for ' a user. The user must already exist, the proxyAddresses ' attribute for the user must already exist, and the new ' proxyAddress must be in SMTP format. ' ' You must specify a valid userPrincipalName (UPN) or a valid ' sAMAccountName to specify the user object to be modified. ' ' Usage: ' ' Ch12-Add-Proxy.wsf [UPN | sAMAccountName] proxyAddress ' ' Example: ' ' Ch12-Add-Proxy.vbs michael.smith smtp:abuse@[1.2.3.4 <http://1.2.3.4/> ] ' Dim objUser, s, strQuery, objRootDSE, strNamingContext Dim strSearch, strAddr Dim arr, arrNew Dim i, iCount, item If WScript.Arguments.Count <> 2 Then Call myExit ("Wrong argument count") End If strAddr = WScript.Arguments (1) strSearch = WScript.Arguments (0) s = LCase (Left (strAddr, 5)) If s <> "smtp:" Then Call myExit ("proxyAddress must have 'smtp:'") End If If InStr (strAddr, "@") = 0 Then Call myExit ("proxyAddress must have '@'") End If If InStr (strAddr, ".") = 0 Then Call myExit ("proxyAddress must have '.'") End If Set objRootDSE = GetObject (" LDAP://RootDSE";) strNamingContext = objRootDSE.Get ("defaultNamingContext") Set objRootDSE = Nothing Call InitializeADSI If checkProxyAddresses (strAddr) Then Call DoneWithADSI WScript.Quit 1 End If If Instr (strSearch, "@") > 0 Then s = "userPrincipalName=" & strSearch Else s = "sAMAccountName=" & strSearch End If strQuery = "<LDAP://"; & strNamingContext & ">;" & _ "(" & s & ");" & _ "name,distinguishedName;" & _ "subtree" Call DoLDAPQuery (strQuery, Rs) If rs.RecordCount = 0 Then e "Record not found: " & s WScript.Quit 1 End If If rs.RecordCount > 1 Then e "Too many records found: " & s WScript.Quit 1 End If While not rs.EOF set objUser = GetObject ("LDAP://"; & rs.Fields ("distinguishedname")) arr = objUser.proxyAddresses iCount = UBound (arr) ReDim arrNew (iCount + 1) i = 0 For Each item in arr e item arrNew (i) = item i = i + 1 Next arrNew (i) = strAddr wscript.echo strAddr objUser.proxyAddresses = arrNew objUser.SetInfo Set objUser = Nothing rs.MoveNext Wend Set objUser = Nothing Call FinishLDAPQuery (rs) Call DoneWithADSI e "Done!" Function checkProxyAddresses (str) s = "proxyAddresses=" & str strQuery = "<LDAP://"; & strNamingContext & ">;" & _ "(" & s & ");" & _ "name,distinguishedName;" & _ "subtree" Call DoLDAPQuery (strQuery, Rs) If rs.RecordCount = 0 Then e "Unused proxyAddress: " & s checkProxyAddresses = False Else e "Duplicate proxyAddress (" & str & ") found. Not allowed." checkProxyAddresses = True End If Call FinishLDAPQuery (rs) End Function Sub myExit (str) e str e "Ch12-Add-Proxy.wsf: [userPrincialName | " & _ "sAMACcountName] proxyAddress" WScript.Quit 1 End Sub </script> </job> ________________________________ From: Tom Kern [mailto:tpkern@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 1:09 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] email addy format http://www.MSExchange.org/ can exchange 2k deliver email to an address in the form of name@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or does it need to be name@xxxxxxxxxx? Also can exchange 2k deliever mail to a domain literal addy like name@ipaddress. ? Thanks