Hi - Sorry I did not understand why you were not replying in the private messages where we started a conversation - didnt not realise you were posting answers here ( for which I got no notification ). Anyway I transferred the domain over from Microsoft Live service & yes I am using small business version. To answer your questions:
1) My domain has three active mailboxes paul@xxxxxxxxx, huw@xxxxxxxxxx, and info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx all of which are used every day and have been verified via google mail
2) it is nothing yet. info@xxx is a general use mailbox for when people want to contact us for general enquiries, which does receive and forward mail but I cannot find it in the mailbox list yet it does work. I want vdp@xxxxxx to be exactly the same, it is not a user mailbox but a general use mailbox that is forwarded to my google mail account like the others. I don;t want to add it though until I can solve the mystery of WHERE INFO@xxxxxx IS CONFIGURED
3) it has never existed
Thanks