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Jim Wilson
Copper Contributor
Sep 15, 2016

Email Proxy (Alias) Addresses Suddenly Capped at 200?

Suddenly, aliases have been capped at 200 without any stated reason.

I have been using more than 200 aliases for 15 years because I assign a specific address to vendors to find out who sells my email address. I currently have 416 aliases. For what it's worth, I have started a support ticket but I'm wondering if anyone knows what prompted this unwelcome change?

  • Jetze Mellema's avatar
    Jetze Mellema
    Brass Contributor

    Is your mailbox on an Exchange Server or Exchange Online. If Exchange Server, what version?

     

     

  • Jim Wilson's avatar
    Jim Wilson
    Copper Contributor

    UPDATE: Unwelcome resolution.

    The only option for any kind of solution was to create multiple Distribution Groups for individuals requiring more than 200 "proxy addresses" or aliases. It's the most stupid thing I've ever had to do in all of my 30 years of administration experience. I now have four, count 'em, FOUR distribution groups specifically for ME that contain 100 or more addresses in unequal alphabetic divisions.

    I now accept that there may have been a limit previously however I was not even close to halfway at only 416 of some supposedly high number of 1200-1300 or more. Suddenly I was shown this popup in September 2016 that mandated no more than 200 addresses were acceptable after I had been well over 350 for years so I know this was a conscious decision by a bureaucrat somewhere at Microsoft. There is no other possible conclusion. Furthermore, I sincerely doubt this was carefully considered whatsoever.

    There has to be a better way — if sensibility could ever prevail! If only Microsoft could find some way to incorporate WILDCARD addresses, this problem would hardly occur. Yes, I've seen the supposed "workarounds" for wildcards but it shouldn't be required. As always with Microsoft, I am once again disappointed, almost as much as with the Edge "browser" that some bureaucrat at Microsoft laughingly thought was a good idea. Sigh.

  • Hi,

    Have you tried to use the plus-sign in your mail-address instead of aliases?

    Then you only need one E-mail address on your mailbox.

    For example, if you have the mail address jim@example.com.

    Then use jim+hpe@example.com when you register mail-address at HPE or jim+amazon@example.com etc.

    All mail should be delivered to the mailbox with the alias jim@example.com

     

    Brgds

     

    Mike

    • Jim Wilson's avatar
      Jim Wilson
      Copper Contributor

      Thanks for the suggestion but I have just confirmed that plus sign addressing does not work with Office 365. It generates a "550 5.4.1 Recipient address rejected" error.

       

       

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