Changing Addresses and the Universal Inbox

To provide a Universal Inbox, Exchange Server must be able to translate and manage different e-mail addressing conventions. It does this by requiring the administrator to assign to each directory object a distinguished name (DN) that provides the information Exchange Server needs to generate equivalent addresses in X.400, Internet (SMTP), and MS Mail formats ( see the figure ).

Each DN must contain an organization name, a site name, and the user's mailbox name. The organization name may be 64 characters long. The example here shows a mailbox name that consists of both the user's alias (helpful in avoiding conflic ts with e-mail systems that support fewer than 64 characters) and the name of the directory container on the server.

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"Multilingual" Translation

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Exchange takes the names of objects in the directory and converts them to addresses understood by different e-mail systems.