My apologies in advance for asking such a basic question... I have a client with a small business - about 20 employees. I have them on SBS2003. I am hosting their domain and all email sent to the domain is put into a single mailbox. Then, Exchange uses the POP3 connector to go out to the Internet, retrieve the email, and puts it into each of the users' mailboxes. I understand that POP3 is not the recommended solution for this scenario. Could someone explain what the recommended solution is? The server does not have a static IP address. Thanks, Mark
- If you don't have a static IP you can use a dynamic IP utility like DynDNS. This updates your DNS zone every time your IP address changes. - Alternatively, you can use an ISP as a smarthost - your MX points to it and you can grab mail using TRN/ETRN w/a SMTP Connector (same concept as getting all inbound mail in a POP mailbox at an ISP and grabbing mail using POP3 Connector - but a lot simpler, more elegant and standardized way of doing it). Many service providers provide this service for a small fee. -- Bharat Suneja MCSE, MCT www.zenprise.com blog: www.suneja.com/blog ----------------------------------------- "MarkR" wrote in message news:48005D49-78A0-416D-BC3C-E94ED2CBFEAB@microsoft.com... > My apologies in advance for asking such a basic question... > > I have a client with a small business - about 20 employees. I have them > on > SBS2003. I am hosting their domain and all email sent to the domain is > put > into a single mailbox. Then, Exchange uses the POP3 connector to go out > to > the Internet, retrieve the email, and puts it into each of the users' > mailboxes. I understand that POP3 is not the recommended solution for > this > scenario. Could someone explain what the recommended solution is? The > server does not have a static IP address. > > Thanks, > Mark
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:14:11 -0800, "Bharat Suneja" wrote: >- If you don't have a static IP you can use a dynamic IP utility like >DynDNS. This updates your DNS zone every time your IP address changes. > >- Alternatively, you can use an ISP as a smarthost - your MX points to it >and you can grab mail using TRN/ETRN w/a SMTP Connector (same concept as >getting all inbound mail in a POP mailbox at an ISP and grabbing mail using >POP3 Connector - but a lot simpler, more elegant and standardized way of >doing it). Many service providers provide this service for a small fee. If you have the dynamic then you'll almost certainly need to do the routing through a smarthost because a growing number of receipients won't accept from an ISP's DHCP range, regardless of whether you're keeping POP to collect the messages or using Dynamic DNS to enable you to have your own MX record.
