Recently I created a new list using MOSS ("sharepoint Discussion list").  I also email enable this list. I gave this list an email address of ithelpdesk.  Once completed I added this "Exchange Contact" to the previously created distribution group named _TechTeam.  This group will email a team a 5 individuals and now the sharepoint list dicussion group.

 

"NOT"..."this did not work as I thought" .  I spent at least a good share of a day trying to troubleshoot whey the Exchange 2007 (using outlook 2007) would not email the newly created list in the MOSS site.  Solution and workaround will be shown below.

 

To note: I already had 1 list working correctly.  So I thought it would be a piece of cake.

 

>>>>The working list was "Annoucements type"...people could email to it directly or through a exchange distribution group.

>>>>The 2nd list type would be a "Discussion group type"

 

So I created and recreated the list,  I also ensured the security for the list was in proper order so that ANYBODY COULD post to it. 

>I set the incoming E-mail settings to yes

>Gave it address ithelpdesk (it said it would create email address ithelpdesk@sharepoint.mydomain.com

>save email attachments > YES

Yes to original email

Yes to meeting invitations

and Email security policy set to "ACCEPT e-mail messages from any sender"

 

Ok-done with sharepoint....

Yes, I could email the list directly using ithelpdesk@sharepoint.mydomain.com

But the group would never email the list....

I checked everything in exchange

I made sure a had the most recent address list (exited outlook 2007 and got back in)(clicked the plus sign to expand the members of the group and yes...the new contact was their).. So i email the "EACH INDIVIDUAL" shown in the group all at once with all 6 smtp email addresss.  THIS WORKED Too.

 

But no matter what I tried emailing just the group did nothing.

 

 

So what I did to fix it... I create a brand new contact with in outlook and titled it

"ithelpdesk2" and gave it the smtp email address of ithelpdesk@sharepoint.mydomain.com. I then added this new contact to the distribution group in exchange 2007.   I also deleted the old contact sharepoint created. 

 

Again, I went into my outlook to see if the group had the latest adress book and emailed the group.  This time it all worked perfectly.

 

So apparently this is a work-around and not a fix.  But we only have a few list and 1 administrator for sharepoint 2007.  This is a work-around we can live with.

 

 

 

 

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