Outside Alias for Inside Mailbox?

[Scott Dunham]

First, I'm NOT an administrator, just a (mildly frustrated) user who doesn't
know much about Exchange but can do some programming.

Our organization has lots of people with pagers, so we have internal email
addresses (i.e., page Fred) that alias to the actual pager company email
address (i.e.866...@pagerco.com). When we're out in the field, we often
need to send pages to each other - but unless you've loaded your pager
address book with a couple hundred addresses yourself, you have to address
the messages to 86612...@pagerco.com. Personally, I don't know everybody
else's actual pager address, but I can remember "page Fred" pretty well.
So... what I'd like to set up is a way to have page...@ourorganization.com
alias to the existing "page Fred" internal address so that we can run
messages through our own server and have them automatically end up in Fred's
pager. Our admin is reluctant to set up an entire set of duplicate
mailboxes because it's just one more place to change when somebody's pager
number changes or a new employee comes in. It's clearly best to just have
one place with the actual pager data and let other addresses point to it -
but is there an easy way to set this up?

Thanks for any assistance...

[Ben Winzenz]

Yup - quite easy to do. Have your somewhat reluctant admin set up custom
recipients for the pagers. It is quite common and quite easy to do. It's
basically an internal address that references an external address. Even
easier, if there are a lot of them, they can be bulk imported using .csv
files and using the Directory Import tool.

Ben

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[Peter Durkee]

Actually, you probably already have the custom recipients, as that's
probably what the internal addresses are. All that really needs to be done
is to add the desired external internet address to each of those custom
recipients. When set up correctly the custom recipients will show the
outgoing address (86612...@pagerco.com) as the primary internet address,
and the desired external address (page...@ourorganization.com) as an
additional internet address.

-Peter

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[Scott Dunham]

Ben and Peter --

Thanks for the advice. I'll see if I can sell the idea - it certainly
doesn't seem all that tough to accomplish. Just to make sure I get it, when
a custom recipient is set up, it can have both an external destination
internet address (86612...@pagerco.com) and an incoming alias
(page...@ourorganization.com) that will automatically get the incoming
message routed to the right custom recipient address in the Exchange
database, thence off to the external address? There essentially wouldn't
be any internal action at all with these custom recipient addresses: they'd
just
be relay points passing the incoming message to the external recipient
address.

I suspect that Peter is right - the existing "page Fred" set of addresses is
probably already configured as custom recipients, so if it's just a matter
of hanging the incoming alias addresses on them, I should be able to talk
the IT poobahs into this - even if I have to do all the initial entries
myself. :-)

"Peter Durkee" <pdu...@mac.invalid> wrote in message
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[Peter Durkee]

You've got it...good luck!
-Peter

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