Can I add external Internet users to my Global Address Book?

Question

We have a semi permanent relationship with another company. We have Groupwise 7.02hp1a and they use Exchange 2007 or 2010(not sure which). They have added many of my people's Internet Addresses they normally deal with here into their Global Address Book(whatever they call it in Exchange). I would like to add in the Internet address of thirty or so of their people into our Global address list for a couple of reasons.
1. My people have Blackberries and they could just type in Bob Smith, do a lookup and send to him. Similarly it would be there on their desktop address list as well.
2. I could include them in system-wide email distribution lists where applicable.
3. In the event someone quits, is terminated or swaps jobs, I could make one global change.
I thought maybe adding a new external entity instead of user, but while that shows up in our addr. list, I can't point it to an internet account. Licensing cost is not a problem so I tried giving one of them a full mailbox at my place and then have a rule fwd all to the outside addr. but it looks sloppy and it is hard to hold conversations because the fwd mailbox is in the sender spot rather than the original sender so reply doesn't work. They have done this on their exchange system so I imagine there is a way on ours as well. Thanks for any help you can give.

Answer 1

OTScon wrote:
>
> We have a semi permanent relationship with another company. We have
> Groupwise 7.02hp1a and they use Exchange 2007 or 2010(not sure
> which). They have added many of my people's Internet Addresses they
> normally deal with here into their Global Address Book(whatever they
> call it in Exchange). I would like to add in the Internet address of
> thirty or so of their people into our Global address list for a
> couple of reasons. 1. My people have Blackberries and they could
> just type in Bob Smith, do a lookup and send to him. Similarly it
> would be there on their desktop address list as well.
> 2. I could include them in system-wide email distribution lists where
> applicable.
> 3. In the event someone quits, is terminated or swaps jobs, I could
> make one global change.
>
> I thought maybe adding a new external entity instead of user, but
> while that shows up in our addr. list, I can't point it to an internet
> account. Licensing cost is not a problem so I tried giving one of
> them a full mailbox at my place and then have a rule fwd all to the
> outside addr. but it looks sloppy and it is hard to hold
> conversations because the fwd mailbox is in the sender spot rather
> than the original sender so reply doesn't work. They have done this
> on their exchange system so I imagine there is a way on ours as well.
> Thanks for any help you can give.
Create an external domain and post office in which you add these users.
The'll just appear in your global address book.
Cheers,
Edward