Perhaps I'm overlooking something, but why not just add an email alias with a shortened nickname?
-- Matt Lathrum General Dynamics Decision Systems When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. -----Original Message----- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Additional Email Addresses I have a friend from Sri Lanka, Sivarajah Sivaguranathar. We call him Siva-Siva. You could create some event sink that would do this for you, but it is not inherent in basic SMTP itself to allow wildcards. William -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:21 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Additional Email Addresses D^mn. Oh well, we only have 75 lusers so it's pretty easy to reroute or DELETE misaddressed emails. Just checking for alternatives. Thanks William. > That would be in violation of RFC2822. > > William > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:10 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Additional Email Addresses > > > Using Exchange 2000SP2, everone's email addresses are > %firstinitial%Lastname. For users with long or commonly mispelled names I > add the alterations of the correct spellings as additional SMTP Addresses > on their account. i.e. > > dfleming - dflemming > rmlodzik - rmoldzik > gsmith - gsmit > > you get the idea > > I have some Thai employees with extremely long names that I've seen > mispelled every which way, even though I usually truncate for their > business cards & published email addresses and add their full names as > additional addresses. > > example wingkapattanakul (first initial & last name) > achaovakitjaroen (first initial & last name) > > Can I add wildcards to additional SMTP addresses? > Like Wing*@domainname.org > or Chaov*@domainname.org nad Choav*@domainname.org > > > > > List Charter and FAQ at: > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm