Just a thought
At 12:05 PM 12/18/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Juergen Weiss wrote:
>> Just take a "normal" email-client to read all mail out of your one POP3-box
>> and forward all this mail to a special exchange account.
>> I did this with one customer.
>> If you want to spent some $ buy a plugin for exchange wich makes the same.
>> >Greetings all,
>> >
>> >I'm new to this list, as we have only brought our first NT server online
>> >about two weeks ago, and thought I'd say hi before asking a my first
>> >question. (HI!) Now that that's out of the way, we have two companies
>> >that recently signed up with us that wish to use an NT server running
>> >Exchange to dialup and exchange mail. Now, at this end we use sendmail,
>> >and it tries to poll all hosts that it has mail for once every 30 minutes,
>> >so for them to receive email via SMTP, they would need to be connected
>> >for approx. 30-35 minutes at a time to be sure they received everything
>> >that was bound for them. This is fairly unacceptable. What we would
>> >do normally is to place all email for the domain in a mail box where
>> >the user could retreieve it via POP3 or IMAP using a program like
fetchmail
>> >or something similiar. Failing that, we would have them run UUCP and
>> >send/receive mail that way. What I'm looking is a way to accomplish this
>> >under NT, either with Exchange, or with a low cost product that can
>> >grab the mail from our server, and then talk SMTP to Exchange and have it
>> >routed and delivered over their internal networks properly. Does anyone
>> >have any suggestions for this?
>
>The problem with this however is that atleast one of the sites has approx.
>500 people at the location, sorting mail like that would be a full time
>job for someone. Do you know of the name and where I can find information
>about the plugin that would do something like this?
>
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