Howdy All -
I have the interesting problem of needing to provide e-mail addresses for users who don't have their own mailboxes; we want e-mail for these people to go to a shared mailbox.
Right now, I'm using SMTP aliases on the shared mailbox to add however many other people need addresses. It is very difficult to manage and get a snapshot view of users, not to mention they don't show up in the address book and other users can't search for somebody or easily find out whose where.
I've been trying to figure out how to accomplish my goal using mail enabled contacts but I can't figure out how to get mail sent to the contact delivered to another exchange mailbox.
We use some external systems which require every employee to have a distinct e-mail address within the company but we can't afford to buy an AD and Exchange license for every user in the company; most of our locations have 3 or 4 computers with a shared "store" username which is what is logged into the computer with and where the store e-mail is, and we want all of the various employee e-mails to collectively go to that one mailbox. Slowly we are buying licenses but only after somebody gets out of their probation period and I'm tryign to find a better/easier way to manage the e-mail addresses then a lot of aliases AND trying to reflect the full lsit of employees in the global address list so we don't have to try and keep a separate listing of employee e-mail addresses.
Any help would be appreciated
Mark / TNGPicard
I have the interesting problem of needing to provide e-mail addresses for users who don't have their own mailboxes; we want e-mail for these people to go to a shared mailbox.
Right now, I'm using SMTP aliases on the shared mailbox to add however many other people need addresses. It is very difficult to manage and get a snapshot view of users, not to mention they don't show up in the address book and other users can't search for somebody or easily find out whose where.
I've been trying to figure out how to accomplish my goal using mail enabled contacts but I can't figure out how to get mail sent to the contact delivered to another exchange mailbox.
We use some external systems which require every employee to have a distinct e-mail address within the company but we can't afford to buy an AD and Exchange license for every user in the company; most of our locations have 3 or 4 computers with a shared "store" username which is what is logged into the computer with and where the store e-mail is, and we want all of the various employee e-mails to collectively go to that one mailbox. Slowly we are buying licenses but only after somebody gets out of their probation period and I'm tryign to find a better/easier way to manage the e-mail addresses then a lot of aliases AND trying to reflect the full lsit of employees in the global address list so we don't have to try and keep a separate listing of employee e-mail addresses.
Any help would be appreciated
Mark / TNGPicard
