I recently started using Mail.app on Lion 10.7.3 in a corporate Exchange 2010 environment. Mail.app is configured solely with my Exchange account. Address Book.app is configured w/ my iCloud account (for my personal contact cards) as well as the Exchange account. Both Mail.app and Address Book.app actually point to my employer's webmail address for all things Exchange related. Mail.app is not configured to use the LDAP server because I'm typically outside the office, not on a VPN connection or anything, and LDAP is not accessible this way due to network security/policy.
In my local contacts I have some co-workers' personal email addresses, but not their work addresses because that's served up by the Exchange/webmail service. When composing an email to a co-coworker for whom I have a personal email address in Address Book.app, Mail.app prefers using that address as opposed to whatever is returned by the webmail service. This is amazingly counter-intuitive. The only workaround is to slap a copy of each co-worker's work email address into Address Book.app for each co-worker that I have a local contact card for. (I could also wait for the email address list to populate as I'm typing out the recipients, & select the correct address, but I'd have to do this each-and-every-time.)
Any other thoughts on this? Seems ridiculous to have to duplicate data to force the mail client to use the appropriate recipient address. Would using an LDAP service solve this? Thanks.
In my local contacts I have some co-workers' personal email addresses, but not their work addresses because that's served up by the Exchange/webmail service. When composing an email to a co-coworker for whom I have a personal email address in Address Book.app, Mail.app prefers using that address as opposed to whatever is returned by the webmail service. This is amazingly counter-intuitive. The only workaround is to slap a copy of each co-worker's work email address into Address Book.app for each co-worker that I have a local contact card for. (I could also wait for the email address list to populate as I'm typing out the recipients, & select the correct address, but I'd have to do this each-and-every-time.)
Any other thoughts on this? Seems ridiculous to have to duplicate data to force the mail client to use the appropriate recipient address. Would using an LDAP service solve this? Thanks.