In certain countries, or in large organizations, it is common to have two or more users with the same display name, especially when these are simply based on first and last names. When the Exchange email address policy tries to assign an email address to a new user that is already assigned to an existing user, it adds a number to it. For example, if there is a John Smith with an email address of [email protected], when a new John Smith joins the organization, it will be assigned the email address [email protected]. This depending on the current organizations' email address policy of course.
What some organizations do is, for example, add an initial to the e-mail address such as [email protected] to make it more professional and easier to distinguish between the two users.
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