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Auto-Send message in Exchange 5.5

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by aliveinmi 1 view

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With the changes in the billing on our ISDN line I would like a way to auto send a message at a specific time of day to wake up our mail storage server at the ISP. The mail is being store at their location when our router is offline. I have the router set to turn off after a period of no usage to keep our ISDN budget from going over a set limit. Is there a way of doing this in Exchange 5.5?

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by curacao_dejavu

check the MS KB Article ID: Q190022.
You may need to install sp4 since there were some issues with the schedule of the site connector before.

regards,

Leopold

by stillatit

Schedule two events (using the AT command) for each time you want to poll for mail. The first event is a ping to somewhere on the net (like you nameserver), but NOT to the mail relay. The second event, one minute later, is the ping to the mail relaythat tells it to poll your machine. The one minute delay allows the line to come up.

If you need to send a message, make the second event a command-line utility that sends a mail message.

Good luck.

by duwaned

Hi.

You could script the use of the mapisend.exe command line utility to send a mail to your mail storage server at your ISP.

Mapisend is a command line utilty from Microsoft that has this sort of functionality. All that you need to be able to use this utlity is a MAPI client (Outlook) installed and configured to send mail to your ISP's server, and the utlity itself.

You could write a batch file which sends the mail at any time using the AT command. Mapisend.exe is available on the Backoffice Resource kit Second Edition CD.

If you need help scripting this batch file, let me know (duwaned@hotmail.com), and I can send some examples to help you write it.

Hope this helps.
Regards.
Duwane

by aliveinmi

Thanks for the input. I ended up using the "Send options" inside of a message in Outlook to have it hold a message until a set time. It them sends the message which starts our router and when the ISP server detects the outgoing message it sends the incoming messages. Thank again!!!!

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