I work for a hosting company. I personally put thogether the Exchange 2000 hosting environment from scratch. As we get more and more customers that want to use OWA, POP3, IMAP, and MAPI, a very big Exchange flaw is becoming more and more obvious - Exchange allows two or more mailboxes to have the same alias (mailbox name) which is good for hosting, but at the same time MAPI, POP3, and IMAP seem to not know how to handle it.
Example: there are two users [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] From the point of view of Active Directory these are completely different user names. Each one has a mailbox, the mailbox name is jsmith. Outlook Web Access does not have a problem with this at all (two jsmith directories coexist on the M: drive without any problems). I thought, until recently, that POP3 and IMAP were fine with this too, but as it turns out they can't handle the situation either. One of these jsmith users will not be able to connect to his mailbox. And MAPI has this problem too. It exhibits itself in two ways - 1) inability for one of jsmith users to log onto his mailbox and 2) sporadic NDRs when the colleagues of one of jsmith users send him messages. I already called MS PSS about this, they reproduced the problem but could not offer any solution. I am just venting here, but maybe someone knows a solution or whether this is going to be addressed, hopefully in near future? Andrey Fyodorov P.S. is there a way to generate an SMTP address based on the user name, and not on the mailbox name? For example [EMAIL PROTECTED] will generate an SMTP address based on the Last Name. My default policy @customerABC.com generates SMTP address based on the mailbox name. I had an idea of making the mailbox name unique, for example customerABC_jsmith, but then my default SMTP address gets generated as [EMAIL PROTECTED] - who would want such an ugly SMTP address? _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
