[ExchangeList] Puzzling Mystery: Ex2k3 allows adding a mailbox with same name as an existing SMTP alias!
- From: "Jabber Wock" <jabberwock99@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:42:34 -0500
Hi,
Here is a strange situation I ran into on an Exchange 2003 server and I was wondering if anyone can shed light on it.
Now a request comes to make a mailbox for
sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx. The admin does not realize that there is already a user with this same alias, and goes ahead and creates the new mailbox.
Amazingly, and here is the perplexing part: Exchange 2003 and AD do not complain, but go ahead and allow this mailbox to be created! So now there is a mailbox named
salesd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx and also secretly and unintentionally, an existing user with an alias
sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ! And of course, any emails for
sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx go to both.
How and why does Exchange allow this?
Interestingly, Exchange does not allow the opposite sitation. If I were to try and add
sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx as an email SMTP alias to some other existing user
Mary.Jane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Exchange / AD refuses to do it as it correctly should.
You may want to try this just as an experiment.
So why is it allowed the other way? Is this an Exchange bug or a "feature" ?
Best regards
JW
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