How to set up Address List

[dtwell99]

Hi,
Our company has just been taken over and I have been asked to import their global address list into an address list for our domain. I have set up an address list in exchange called my contacts. I have imported all of the external users as contacts into an OU called contacts using csvde. I have set the showinaddressbook attribute to show in my contacts address list. This works ok, I can see all contacts in the address list as expected.

The problem I have is that if I try to send a mail to any of these contacts I get the following error "This recipient e-mail address was not found in the recipient e-mail system. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. Please check the recipient e-mail address and try resending this message, or provide the following diagnostic text to your system administrator."

Does anyone have a step by step guide for adding an address list with external contacts. I just can't figure out what I am doing wrong.

 

[MarkArnold]

This will probably be down to the columns you have done within CSVDE. Can you post the contents of line 1 for us and we'll check it out.

 

[dtwell99]

I went through the columns are there was one missing "legacyExchangeDN". After further checking I found that the proxyAddress attribute needs the SMTP in capitals. If it was in lowercase then it would not send to the external contact and I would receive "#550 5.2.0 RESOLVER.ADR.BadPrimary; recipient primary SMTP address is missing or invalid ##" All appears to be working now.

 

[ntinlin]

Well done.
Primary SMTP address does indeed need to be capitalised. That's how XC knows it is primary.

We had a big problem with an update util writing directly through ADSI and making multiple primary addresses (as far as XC was concerned), very sloppy programming.

Neill