I have recently inherited a network with more than a few quirks – my predecessor built the entire setup whilst he was still learning so I’m trying to tidy thing up somewhat.
Our company email is all IMAP hosted by an external agency who also host our website etc so anybody with access to their mailbox password can get their email from any internet enabled machine (of which we have only 3).
I would like to set all the machines up to be able to send and receive email but would also like to be able to store the email locally. I know this defeats the object of IMAP but I am essentially looking for a system for collecting the email from the IMAP server for each mailbox, saving a copy locally and then distributing it to each user so they can collect it with an outlook client.
We are running a server 2003/XP client environment. The server is not connected to the internet and the MD would rather it remained that way.
My understanding of email and mail servers is fairly slim so any idiot-proof help would be appreciated.
Cheers
