I was babysitting a network while the client was in search of a new tech to do it fulltime. There was one user that had a last name with the apostrophe as the primary address. She had a lot of problems with e-mail. I created a primary without the apostrophe and moved the apostrophe name as an alias. She was furious to lost the apostrophe, but stopped having problems with outgoing mail. Still had some problems with incoming, but she refused to send out a notification to all who had her address about using the new one.
I'd advise skipping the apostrophe, not so much as your system will have a problem, but other systems out there may. \\Steve// From: xyz [mailto:x...@minneapolis.edu] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 8:20 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Apostrophe in email address - best practice? Greetings, We have for example user John O'Brian. >From what I read, John.O'br...@company.com is legal per RFC2822 but currently we have set john.obr...@company.com ...the local-part of the e-mail may use any of these ASCII characters: * Uppercase and lowercase letters * The digits 0 through 9 * The characters,! # $ % & ' * + - / =? ^ _ ` { | } ~ * The character "." provided that it is not the first or last character in the local-part. However, I also read that some email applications may not process ( ' ) correctly. ( I can deal with that with other SMTP address options if needed) (user AD login name is obrianjo, and has that default mailbox alias) In 2010 EXCHANGE MANAGEMENT CONSOLE - RECIPIENT CONFIGURATION - MAILBOX - John OBrian Properties, we show: GENERAL tab = John OBrian USER INFORMATION tab - Last Name=OBrian USER INFORMATION tab - Name=John OBrian At minimum, I would like this to display properly in the campus OAB. Would I need to change to O'Brian in all three fields above? I could then add John.O'br...@company.com as another SMTP email address, (or would this happen automatically by changing the above fields?) This is a new high level administrator so I want to be careful to not mess anything up. We have done this both ways on our old GROUPWISE system, but what is best practice in EXCHANGE? Thanks for your help. Dana --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
