Is it possible to block my contacts with external address from being stamped by mail default e-mail address policy? I tried reating a new policy that only stamps mailbox enabled but its the default policy that is stamping them. I dont want these external address getting stamped with my address. I import this contact on a bi monthly process.Thanks for your help

Set theEmailAddressPolicyEnabled attribute to false during import.

Hi, To let the default E-Mail Address Policy not stamp to the External Contact is impossible, this is by design. We may work around the issue. Since the highest priority email address policy will apply to user. So we can create a new email address policy for external contact. To get this working we need create a accepted domain with the dummy email address which we want to be assigned to the contacts and then create a new Email Address Policy and only select contacts with External Email address and add that newly created accepted domain and it will create the new email address policy which will be applied only to the contactsNote: This will be applicable to the new contacts created, the old contacts will still have the default corporate email address stamped to it. Regards, Xiu

Thanks for your help. I will give this a try in my lab first.

I don't understand why this is by design, with no opt-out approach. The whole notion behind having an externalcontact is because they don't exist in your company's namespace!I too am struggling with this issue. I have joined an environment recently where we will be running a coexistant mail and authentication environment, and the default policy is wreaking havoc. I have configured ILM2 to correctly import the contact from the iPlanet server into Active Directory, complete with the mail, targetAddress, mailNickname and proxyAddress values, but then Exchange comes along and clobbers the mail address!I've already tried creating a higher precedent rule that solely applies to allcontacts, but after a full export from ILM (into AD) to restore the mail value, it would appear it's being immediately written over by the default rule again. This is incredibly frustrating! If I wanted external contacts to have a corporate mail address, I'd set them up as users!Cheers,Lain

On Tue, 15-Sep-09 03:36:27 GMT, Lain Robertson wrote: with the mail, targetAddress, mailNickname and proxyAddress values, but then Exchange comes along and clobbers the mail address!I've already tried creating a higher precedent rule that solely applies to all contacts, but after a full export from ILM (into AD) to restore the mail value, it would appear it's being immediately written over by the default rule again. This is incredibly frustrating! If I wanted external contacts to have a corporate mail address, I'd set them up as users!Cheers,Lain During the process of adding them to your directory, add the GUID forthe default policy to the msExchPoliciesExcluded property for eachcontact.---Rich MatheisenMCSE+I, Exchange MVP--- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP