Can not create an smtp e-mail address of service@mydomain.com

[royaltg]

I have a Windows 2000 SBS server and I am hosting SMTP email for my domain via Exchange. When I try to create a new SMTP email address of service@mydomain.com I receive an error message stating "This e-mail address already exists in this organization." I did a search for this email address, but it does not appear. Does anyone know why I can't create it, or does Microsoft deny this address from being created?

 

[Peter1891]

If you search active directory for email addresses, the only ones that show up are your primary addresses. Someone or a group could still have an alias (secondary-proxy-address) with the email address you're looking for.
You could try to do search with the exchange system mangager's tracking center if you enabled logging.

 

[ohauer]

hello, searching with exchange manager is a possible resolution. You also have the option to export a search to an textfile with the ldifde tool (on a server) and search with an texteditor or a grep util.

Here is an exsample for an textexport
Please replace
YourDomainControler.YourDomain.DomainSuffix -d "dc=YourDomain,dc=DomainSuffix
with your data and put the following in an batchfile in one single line.

ldifde -f SearchEmail.ldf -s YourDomainControler.YourDomain.DomainSuffix -d "dc=YourDomain,dc=DomainSuffix" -p subtree -r "(&(&(& (mailnickname=*) (| (&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(!(homeMDB=*))(!(msExchHomeServerName=*)))(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(|(homeMDB=*)(msExchHomeServerName=*)))(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=contact))(objectCategory=group)(objectCategory=publicFolder) ))))" -l "cn,objectclass,proxyAddresses,mail"