The e-mail address recipient policy concept in Exchange 2003 is separated into two concepts in Exchange 2007: E-mail Address Policies (EAP) and Accepted Domains. This blog post covers the relati...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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I have an issue with multiple EAPs using Custom Attributes to stamp mailboxes with an appropriate SMTP address.
My environment needs to accept email for several domains, and a large number of users need more than one email address. I used Custom Attributes to specify strings for the users (i.e. dept1, dept2) but have found it only stamps the mailboxes with the highest one in the order. i.e. Policy 1 has the highest priority and uses Custom Attrib1, Policy 2 has priority 2 and uses Custom Attrib2. If I enter both Custom Attribs only the SMTP address for Policy1 gets stamped on the mailbox.
I have found through elimination that I need to apply the custom attributes in reverse order and let the lower priority/lower attrib number SMTP address be stamped before applying the next attribute, or I only get the highest priority policy address. This is very time consuming.
For users with only one Custom Attrib, it works fine.
Has anyone else seen anything similar?
My environment needs to accept email for several domains, and a large number of users need more than one email address. I used Custom Attributes to specify strings for the users (i.e. dept1, dept2) but have found it only stamps the mailboxes with the highest one in the order. i.e. Policy 1 has the highest priority and uses Custom Attrib1, Policy 2 has priority 2 and uses Custom Attrib2. If I enter both Custom Attribs only the SMTP address for Policy1 gets stamped on the mailbox.
I have found through elimination that I need to apply the custom attributes in reverse order and let the lower priority/lower attrib number SMTP address be stamped before applying the next attribute, or I only get the highest priority policy address. This is very time consuming.
For users with only one Custom Attrib, it works fine.
Has anyone else seen anything similar?