I need to create mail contacts of numerous vendors that we deal with for the purpose of global sharing among my exchange users. When I go thru the management console and create the mail contact I input the external email address of the contact; however, after the contact is created Ive noticed that under its email address properties that an email address w/ my internal domain has also been created. The external email address is shown bold as the primary SMTP address; but why is the secondary address with my domain being created. I dont believe that I want an address created with external_person@mydomain.com. Because this would make me a relay point for that external person who is just a vendor we deal with. Any thoughts on how to stop this besides going back into each contact after its created and deleting the internal address created?

Hi, The internal e-mail address is being created because the object has an alias and because the "automatically update e-mail address based on recipient policies" is selected. I believe that the internal address is needed but right now I can't find the reason. To stop external users sending mails to the contact objects you could use restrictions so that only authenticated users can send mails to the contacts. Leif

Thanks for your response....