Hello Matt:

If you're looking to remove Outlook's "caching" of email addresses,
recreate the user's Outlook nickname file.  It is usually *.nk2 on a
user's local machine.  See 287623, 293032 or 242074 depending on the
Outlook version.

Good luck!
-Juancho



> OK, I'm sure this is a newbie question, but I don't even know what to
> call this problem in order to look it up:
> 
> After our upgrade to Exchange 2000 from 5.5 many of our users are
> experiencing a problem where they are getting undeliverable emails to
> other staff members.  This is definitely a problem with the X400
> addresses, since they have changed and the SMTP addresses have not (and
> in fact, when looking at their "sent item" I can see the old X400
> address from the 5.5 system is still in there).
> 
> So, I surmise that the problem has to do with how Outlook holds on to
> past email addresses.  My guess is that the users are responding to old
> emails that came from users back when the old system was in place and
> are therefore getting the old X400 addresses.  This is sticking in
> Outlook's "cache" (again, note that I'm not an Outlook expert) and
> causing problems when they then attempt to send to that user again.
> 
> So, two possible related solutions:
> 
> 1.  get rid of the X400 addresses if they are not necessary.  We have
> only one Exchange server and are not likely to get another.  Do we
> really need them?
> 
> 2.  Figure out how to turn off Outlook's "caching" of email addresses.
> How does one do that?  Is there a way to do it via Active Directory
> GPO's?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Matt

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