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Title:Microsoft Exchange Server
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Moderator:FLASK2::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 17 1995
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Thu Jun 05 1997
Number of topics:1099
Total number of notes:5174

890.0. "Omitting values in multi-valued entry bulk imports" by SIOG::ras10.wro.dec.com::dub03.dbo.dec.com::McCorry (Tenors get women by the score) Wed Feb 19 1997 18:46

It's not uncommon to have the site addressing properties on an Exchange 
server configured so that they create addresses for MS Mail, SMTP, and 
X.400 values when you create an Exchange account.

However, when you create custom external recipients from a load file, 
Exchange automatically sets values for these properties even if the E-mail 
Addresses is absent from the import file.

If you include the E-mail Addresses property in the import file, but leave 
out any of the values, say the SMTP value, Exchange creates this from the 
Site Addressing defaults anyway.

I want to create custom external recipients with values only for the MS 
Mail and X.400 items of the E-mail Addresses multi-valued property.

I've tried various incantations of what should work, but to no avail.  
I've tried to just omit the value, to include it but with no data (which 
produces strange results).

The Microsoft documentation clearly illustrates that to delete a value you 
merely click on the delete button, but this hardly works for bulk 
imports!!

Thanks in advance
Kieran
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890.1Re: e-mail addresses for custom recipientsGOBUCS::COOLEYMegan and Michelle's DaddyFri Feb 21 1997 16:0824
    Hi Kieran,

> However, when you create custom external recipients from a load file, 
> Exchange automatically sets values for these properties even if the E-mail 
> Addresses is absent from the import file.
>
> If you include the E-mail Addresses property in the import file, but leave 
> out any of the values, say the SMTP value, Exchange creates this from the 
> Site Addressing defaults anyway.
>
> I want to create custom external recipients with values only for the MS 
> Mail and X.400 items of the E-mail Addresses multi-valued property.
    
    I tried to solve a similar problem a few weeks back with no luck. (I
    had wanted to disable the creation of an X400 address).  I ended up
    having to create a dummy email address, because the automatically
    created address might have conflicted with a real address I wanted to
    use later.

    Let us know if you find an answer.  It doesn't make sense for custom
    recipients to have automatically generated addresses, if you ask me.

    Regards,
    Warren
890.2Automatic creation of email addresses can now be disabledGOBUCS::COOLEYMegan and Michelle's DaddyWed Apr 02 1997 19:228
    It looks like in Exchange 5.0, the problem of Exchange automatically
    creating e-mail addresses on a directory Import has been addressed.  
    
    There now exist checkboxes under the site addressing tab which allow you 
    to disable creation of e-mail addresses for X400, MS, SMTP, and/or CCMAIL.
    
    Regards,
    Warren