Topic: SME Server & Exchange

[ceebster]

Hi Folks

I work at a school, and for a couple of years we having been using Exchange 2000 for mail etc.  One problem we have is that we have loads and loads of spam/

Is it possible to use SME server to accept all my incoming mail from our LEA - filter it, and then forward it on to my exchange server?


Thanks


Chris

[crazybob]

The quick answer is yes, and here is a short thread I found on it,

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=33221.0

[ceebster]

Hi Folks

Me again - Good news managed to forward mail from the sme to exchange -

I have for the moment, set the spam sensativity high, and told it to identify the messages that are bad with **SPAM**

Couple of silly questions, would i have to set up a customer level so that they are rejected??

I have set the "Sort spam into junkmail folder" to enable - i assume i would have to set up a rule in exchnage to sort all mail labled with **SPAM** into a junk folder on the exchange server?

Many Thanks


Chris

[gregswallow]

Here's an idea that you may not have thought of, as an alternate idea to forwarding _all_ your mail to your exchange server.

I have users (myself included) that use a Windows Mobile smartphone or PDA and it is quite an advantage to use that type of device with an Exchange server (ie, push email).  If you want to get away from running an exchange server for the benefit of just a few users, one option is to use SME for the majority of your users and use (or recommend) a service like from 4smartphone.net for users that want Exchange.  You just forward an individuals email account to something.at.4smartphone.net, but they can still send and receive as if it's coming from your domain name.  It costs $4-10/month per user.  Probably other comanies offer that type of service too, but I'm familiar with just that one.

If you want to let users set their own forwarding address, install the contrib smeserver-userpanel (I think that's the one??) from dungog.net on SME, people can set their own forwarding address without bothering you.