Hi all,
I have a situation coming up that I could use some direction with. I have a small network (55 users) with a single Windows 2003 Server Domain. Currently all users have a POP3 email account that runs through our ISP. In the near future we will be implementing a brand new Windows 2003 Server with Exchange 2003 on it. The main purpose for this is to share calendars, assign tasks and things like that. I don’t believe that we will be hosting our own email. Ideally, we will set up SMTP email accounts that run through exchange for internal email. Seeing as I don’t have a lot of experience with setting up exchange, My question is this:
Regarding the current POP3 email accounts…what is the most practical way to deal with the POP3 email accounts? I’m not quite sure how to configure the system to still use the POP3 accounts but run through exchange. Maybe I’m asking something that can’t be done. I know with SBS you can take advantage of the POP3 Connector. But Exchange 2003 doesn’t have that. Will I have to get a third party POP3 Connector program? Will I still have to have the POP3 accounts set up on the user PC’s. The problem with doing that is all of their external email (POP3) will still be local on the user’s PC which won’t be getting backed up. I know that is a lot of questions…sorry. I’m just not sure what the best route to take is. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
