Address book multiple entries

What can I do about triplicate entries in my address book on the macbook? I don't have this problem with mh other devices.

Marc Charbonneau wrote:
> Our CIO wants a few address book entries that if chosen, will all
> send to the same account.
>
> Seems easy enough but I haven't found a way, without creating a new
> account that has some Forward or Delegate rule.
>
> Is there a nicer way to do it without having another real GW account
> created and using Rules?
>
> I was kind of hoping to just create an External User that simply
> points to the one account but it complains that that e-mail address
> already exists.
Why not using nick names ? The only downside is gw7 and earlier
nicknames don't show up in the address book. GW8 does show the
nicknames in the address book.
Cheers,
Edward

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