I'm trying to set a catch all email address in AD by entering in *@mydomain.com in Exchange 2000. Here's the problem though. At one point, exchange had email addresses for this domain, such as sales@mydomain.com, info@mydomain.com, etc. Now I have gone through AD and deleted all these email addresses. I have also run the Cleanup Agent in Exchange. When I try to set the address to *@mydomain.com, AD returns an error "This email address already exists in the organization." My guess is I'm missing a step somewhere. Any ideas?
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Setting Exchange Email Wild Cards
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Maybe I didn't phrase this question correctly. All I'm trying to do is change an AD user's email address from sales@mydomain.com to *@mydomain.com. No one else in AD has an email address within the "mydomain.com" domain currently, but some users did at an earlier time. When I try to set the email address, I received the error message "The email address already exists in the organization." Any ideas?
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Well, I got it to work. After I came into the office today and rebooted the Exchange Server, it took the wild card in Active Directory for the users email. So I guess the solution is to delete any associated email address with the same domain name, run Cleanup Agent, then reboot the Exchange Server.
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Has that account actually been acting as a "catch-all" since the renaming? Just curious....
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