OtherMailbox property info

[jasonat...@hotmail.com]

I've got a couple of questions about the OtherMailbox property used to
maintain a list of additional mailboxes assigned to a user in Active
Directory.

1. Is this property still supported by Exchange Server post version 5.5
?
2. Am I correct in thinking the format of an OtherMailbox property
value would be <protocol>$<emailaddress> e.g smtp$myU...@myDomain.com.

Due to lack of an Exchange 5.5 system, its tricky to find out for sure.

Thanks,

[andy webb]

with Exchange 200x, it's one mailbox per user. and one user per mailbox.

You can grant rights to the mailbox or make the user a delegate of multiple
mailboxes, but that doesn't show up with any sort of backlink to the user in
active directory.

<jasonat...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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[jasonat...@hotmail.com]

Ok. However, I am still interested in the answers to my original
questions as I need to support exchange 5.5.

Any exchange 5.5 experts able to help ?

[andy webb]

Man, it's hard to carry on a thread when you clip all the content out.

7 years ago I was an Exchange 5.5 expert. Now, apparently not so much.

otherMailbox doesn't have anything to do with other mailboxes. It is a
property to hold additional addresses ("aliases") for the existing mailbox
since in 5.5 (testing memory here) you couldn't have more than one SMTP
address on a mailbox. Part of the legacy on the 4.x-5.x platform of SMTP
being an addon and the SMTP address generator being rather unsophisticated.
Who would have known this internet thing would take off, right?

It doesn't exist in the Exchange 200x schema extensions to AD. It's
replaced with the ability of the proxyAddresses property to hold multiple
SMTP addresses.

Yes, the format is <addrtype>$<addr>. In AD, the format is
<addrtype>:<addr>. There are tons of google results with scripts for
manipulating it.

<jasonat...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

Ok. However, I am still interested in the answers to my original
questions as I need to support exchange 5.5.

Any exchange 5.5 experts able to help ?

"andy webb" <aw...@swinc.com.spamsucks.com> wrote in message
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