How to not get emails you send on an Microsoft Exchange distribution list

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When we used to run our own Exchange server I do not recall getting emails sent back to me that I sent to a distribution list of which I'm a member. However, in our current situation I am getting emails that I sent. Is this standard Exchange behavior?

Is there a way to control whether you get your own emails sent back to you when sent to a distribution list that you are on?

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A message sent to a distribution list is delivered to all users that belongs to that DL; this is standard Exchange behaviour, and there's no way (at least that I know of) to avoid it.

You can set up a rule in Outlook to automatically move it to a different folder or plainly delete it, though.

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Importing csv list of contacts into Exchange 2007 GAL and create Distribution Group

The -org switch is the OrganizationalUnit to place the new contact in, not the name of the group.

You need something like the following (enter it all on one line - I have split it solely for readability).

Import-CSV -Path D:\contacts.csv | 
ForEach-Object { 
New-MailContact -Name $_.Name -ExternalEmailAddress $_.ExternalEmailAddress 
-OrganizationalUnit "cn=Users,dc=Adatum,dc=com"; 
Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "FloridaBar" -Member $_.Name }

In this case, my contacts.csv has two columns - Name and ExternalEmailAddress.

The distribution group FloridaBar must be created before the import.

Note: If this were to be used more than once then I would put some effort into error handling; probably by writing a ps1 script that looped through the collection and write erroneous data (for example names that already existed in AD) out to an errors.csv file.

Windows – How to send mails using a custom .NET application and Windows authentication to a distribution list that only allows authenticated senders

Try setting smtpClient.UseDefaultCredentials = true.

The default value for this property is false. I don't know for sure if that will fix your problem but it seems like an easy thing to try.

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