Mail-enabled contacts

Mail-enabled contacts are a convenient way to add external correspondents (people who have email accounts outside your Exchange organization) to the GAL. Typically, contacts represent people working in other companies to whom a number of users need to send messages on a frequent basis. They are commonly used to facilitate contact with specific individuals or utility mailboxes for external vendors such as PR agencies. Exchange 2013 groups both mail users and mail contacts under Contacts in the recipients section of EAC.

To create a new contact, under Recipients, open the Contacts section and click + (New). Note that the drop-down menu provides options to create a new mail contact or a new mail user but that the default is to ...

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