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Donald Campbell
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:36 am Post subject:
A Mail list called "everyone" |
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Have migrated from 5.5 to Ex2003 on Win2003.
The old set-up had a mail group called "everyone" which they could mail
to.
They can no-longer use the term "everyone" as a mail list. When they try
and create a group by this name it says that it already exists.
OK, now all object are held in AD, so I can see why it will not let you
use "everyone" as a mail name since it is a group in Windows.
But why can you not use it in outlook to send to all users?
BR
Don C
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Neil Hobson [MVP]
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:41 am Post subject:
Re: A Mail list called "everyone" |
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Because it's a reserved name as you've discovered. Just create a new list
called "All Users" or something similar.
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"Donald Campbell" <Donald@suedon.co.uk> wrote in message
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Have migrated from 5.5 to Ex2003 on Win2003.
The old set-up had a mail group called "everyone" which they could mail
to.
They can no-longer use the term "everyone" as a mail list. When they try
and create a group by this name it says that it already exists.
OK, now all object are held in AD, so I can see why it will not let you
use "everyone" as a mail name since it is a group in Windows.
But why can you not use it in outlook to send to all users?
BR
Don C |
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Juergen Nieveler
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:52 pm Post subject:
Re: A Mail list called "everyone" |
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"Neil Hobson [MVP]" <neil.hobson@nospam.silversands.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | Because it's a reserved name as you've discovered. Just create a new
list called "All Users" or something similar.
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However, bear in mind that it's good practice to set access
restrictions on this group so that not everybody can send mail to it -
especially not everybody on the whole Internet :-)
I've sometimes seen "all users"-mailing lists in large companies, and
at least once a day somebody would send something to such a mailing
list that didn't really belong there... from christmas greetings to
"Kittens to give away". A general mailing list is a nice tool, but not
if all users send stuff like "Car xy left the lights on" - for a car
that isn't even on the same continent as you...
Juergen Nieveler
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Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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