Why are you using X.400 to connect 5.5 and 2000? Why not SMTP?

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick
Brown
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 4:22 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Recipient address issue over X400


All,
 
I've got an Exchange 5.5 system and an Exchange 2000 system connected by
X400 connector. I have added the appropriate X400 address space on each side
of the connector to route mail to/from each system correctly. I am using an
in-house written app to maintain directory information. It creates custom
recipients (Ex5.5) and contacts (Ex2000) in each directory with an X400
target address corresponding to mailboxes in the remote directory.
  
My problem is how recipient addresses are recognised by the Exchange 5.5
system. For example:
 
User on Exchange 2000 system chooses my contact from their address list and
sends mail. The target address is the X400 address of my mailbox. The mail
is routed over the X400 connector to my mailbox. When I open the mail and
look at the properties of the sender, it correctly resolves to the custom
recipient that we have in our directory (because the sender X400 address
matches to the custom recipient) When I look at properties of the recipient
however, they just show the "legacyexchangedn" value from the contact on the
exch2000 system. It doesn't resolve to any object from our directoy.

So it appears that the sender field is received as an X400 value, which we
can resolve to our directory, but the recipients field is received as an
X500 value, which we can't.

Can anyone explain the reason for this behaviour to me? Why aren't the
recipients addresses also seen as X400?

This becomes a problem where the the original mail is sent to multiple
recipients on the Exch5.5 system. If any of the recipients chooses to
"reply-all", only the sender address is resolved correctly. The other
original recipients are not then properly addressed.

Apologies for the ramble, but I hope it makes sense. Thanks in advance for
any insight.

Cheers, Nick.

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