8 - Addresses, Address Lists, and Offline Address Lists

Abstract

This chapter discusses the creation and management of electronic mail (e-mail) addresses, address lists, and offline address lists. For a user to send an e-mail message, the user must know the e-mail address of the intended recipients. Exchange includes two types of user lists that can facilitate addressing e-mail messages: address Lists and offline address lists. Address lists contain information about selected objects from the active directory. Address lists contain information such as e-mail addresses, street addresses, telephone numbers, pager numbers, fax numbers, conference rooms, and web page addresses. Exchange administrators can define multiple shared address lists, each containing a different subset of users to meet the needs of the organization. Offline address lists are formatted files that contain selected sets of address lists. Users can download an offline address list to a desktop or laptop system and then use the list to find recipient addresses while they are disconnected from the network. When a new recipient is added, the e-mail addresses for the recipient are generated according to a set of rules known as recipient policies.