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Webmail like Hotmail using Exchange and

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by shanghai sam

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I‘d like to provide a web mail solution for my client website to boost web page impressions just like hotmail and yahoo do.

Background:
Website has about a million hits a Month.
Membership database has 50.000 users.
Environment: NT Server 4.0 sp6a, IIS 4, Active Server Passes, Database Access, Exchange 5.5 (hasn’t been installed yet)

Business Goals:
Existing member in the database will have their mailboxes created automatically.
New user will have their email obtained by registering themselves on website. When registering to the membership database via web page username, password and email address should be automatically stored.

Questions:
Is it possible to do this with Exchange 5.5?
I have heard before that this can be accomplished by using Exchange in conjunctions with Site Server.
Is it true or false?
I know there are other mail servers that I can almost achieve this propose like IMail Server, MailSite, CommuniGate Pro, Eudora WorldMail Server, N-PLEX Global 4.0, NTMail. Since my client already have exchange 5.5 and all these Mail servers cost on average $2000.00 dolares. I’d rather use exchange with some kind of add-ons.

I would appreciate any comments on this matter. Thank you

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by dynamo2003

Most ISPs out there use webmail. A technology that allow clients to read messages without having to download (SMTP). If you are a fan of Exchange 5.5 then you can deploy several IIS servers and implement OWA (Outlook Web Access) on your Exchange server. You can then create aliases across your IIS server to fulfil client's request when their mailboxes are accessed.

Speak to your ISP about the service as your ISP needs to host MX records for you on their network to allow client access across the Internet

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