main mailserver hosting on Linux - forwarding only one email to ex   

Hi,

My domain Company.com (example)'s email is hosted on a Linux box. However 
one manager wants to take advantage of Pushmail, and would like to be hosted 
on a MS Exchange.

It is impossible for us to migrate all users to Exchange (financial reasons 
etc). 

Is there a way just to forward all emails to the MS exchange just for this 
account? And how should exchange be setup?

date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 00:11:00 -0700   author:   Bob

Re: main mailserver hosting on Linux - forwarding only one email to ex   

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 00:11:00 -0700, Bob 
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>My domain Company.com (example)'s email is hosted on a Linux box. However 
>one manager wants to take advantage of Pushmail, and would like to be hosted 
>on a MS Exchange.
>
>It is impossible for us to migrate all users to Exchange (financial reasons 
>etc). 
>
>Is there a way just to forward all emails to the MS exchange just for this 
>account? And how should exchange be setup?

One manager wants email so you're investing in an Exchange server and
the base licenses for one person but budget is still an issue? You
know how weird that sounds, right?
It's easily achieved though. Your Linux mail server will presumably be
able to say "For all mail delivered to user@linux.com forward that
mail to user@something-internal.com where "something-internal" is
entirely fictitious and known only to DNS within your network.
Exchange server then has two email addresses on this guys account;
user@linux.com is primary (yes, it is) and user@something-internal.com
is the secondary. You have a recipient policy that allows receipt of
both otherwise the Exchange would just reject. It's entirely  up to
you how you deliver mail from Exchange to the outside world.
See:
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-2003-SMTP-Namespace-Sharing.html
which will help you understand the processes on both sides.

date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:59:53 -0400   author:   Mark Arnold [MVP]

Re: main mailserver hosting on Linux - forwarding only one email t   

Hi Mark,

Actually we are not going to invest in an entire Exchange Server, but will 
be using a managed Exchange hosting (preferably), and it will be outside of 
the our network... (to keep the cost low - make sense now ;))

You have other suggestions to tackle the above scenario? 

THanks!

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 00:11:00 -0700, Bob 
> wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >My domain Company.com (example)'s email is hosted on a Linux box. However 
> >one manager wants to take advantage of Pushmail, and would like to be hosted 
> >on a MS Exchange.
> >
> >It is impossible for us to migrate all users to Exchange (financial reasons 
> >etc). 
> >
> >Is there a way just to forward all emails to the MS exchange just for this 
> >account? And how should exchange be setup?
> 
> One manager wants email so you're investing in an Exchange server and
> the base licenses for one person but budget is still an issue? You
> know how weird that sounds, right?
> It's easily achieved though. Your Linux mail server will presumably be
> able to say "For all mail delivered to user@linux.com forward that
> mail to user@something-internal.com where "something-internal" is
> entirely fictitious and known only to DNS within your network.
> Exchange server then has two email addresses on this guys account;
> user@linux.com is primary (yes, it is) and user@something-internal.com
> is the secondary. You have a recipient policy that allows receipt of
> both otherwise the Exchange would just reject. It's entirely  up to
> you how you deliver mail from Exchange to the outside world.
> See:
> http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-2003-SMTP-Namespace-Sharing.html
> which will help you understand the processes on both sides.
>

date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 19:54:00 -0700   author:   Bob

Re: main mailserver hosting on Linux - forwarding only one email t   

"Bob"  ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:A6F18BCE-581B-403E-B500-AF60DAA25363@microsoft.com...

> You have other suggestions to tackle the above scenario?

If only one user will be using Exchange, what will it be good for?

Exchange does its best when used as a groupware environment... otherwise, 
it's just a mail server.


Massimo

date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 06:30:52 +0200   author:   Massimo

Re: main mailserver hosting on Linux - forwarding only one email t   

Again, my manager only wants to have push mail functionality, and not about 
groupwise/collaboration functions.

"Massimo" wrote:

> "Bob"  ha scritto nel messaggio 
> news:A6F18BCE-581B-403E-B500-AF60DAA25363@microsoft.com...
> 
> > You have other suggestions to tackle the above scenario?
> 
> If only one user will be using Exchange, what will it be good for?
> 
> Exchange does its best when used as a groupware environment... otherwise, 
> it's just a mail server.
> 
> 
> Massimo
> 
>

date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 01:40:02 -0700   author:   Bob