Is it possible to create a Mail Contact from a Domain User account? The reason is: One of our external user needs to access our Application Server for which we need to create him as a Domain user. But for contacting him via external e-mail id we have a mail contact account. Thanks

Sure thing. It sounds like you didnt know there was a difference between a Mail Enabled account and a Mailbox Enabled account. So all you have to do is to Mail Enable the AD account which does not create a mailbox for it but does put it into the GAL with a mail address. You typically do this for remote users who have their (home maybe) email address, never come into the office but do need to access (say) file shares, SQL stuff or whatever. "Mr.Kris" wrote in message news:0ad93d32-8e25-4271-83c9-95e2ecc14261... Is it possible to create a Mail Contact from a Domain User account? The reason is: One of our external user needs to access our Application Server for which we need to create him as a Domain user. But for contacting him via external e-mail id we have a mail contact account. Thanks Mark Arnold, Exchange MVP.

Mark, I guess so ..... Thank you so much for pointing out. Good article at: http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Understanding-Mailbox-Enabled-Mail-Enabled-Recipients.html