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Title: group email address
Post by: Andy Butcher on July 16, 2003, 11:06:46 PM

Hi,

I want to be able to have SME server as the email server for a domain but for another box to download all email for that domain via POP3 to a Win2K Exchange server (I apologise for bringing Windows into this). Does anyone know if it's possible to set up a group email address on the SME server so that I can set up a single POP3 on the Win2k box to download all of the emails as a group? At the moment I have to POP to the SME server for each individual account in the domain, one at a time.

Cheers,

Andy

Title: Re: group email address
Post by: Ray Mitchell on July 17, 2003, 07:28:09 AM

In server manager you could setup each user account delivery to "forward only" to another common user account. Then you collect the mail from the common user account.

Regs
Ray

Title: Re: group email address
Post by: Kelvin on July 18, 2003, 03:30:06 AM

Or, in server manager, you could set the delegate mail server as the exchange server and bypass POP collection altogether. The POP connector in Exchange is one of the biggest sources of Exchange crashes I've ever come across.

Kelvin

Title: Re: group email address
Post by: Andy Butcher on July 18, 2003, 04:34:08 PM

Hi guys and thanks so far, but I don't think that solves my problem;

Say I want to send 2 messages, one to A@domain.com and one to B@domain.com.

I configure SME for these accounts. Sure enough when I send the emails, one sits in one account and the other sits in t'other.

Problem: I want to POP these to my Exchange 2K server - to do this I must set up 2 unique POP logins from the Exchange server. Now, this isnt a problem for 2 inidividuals, but if you have 1000 users that's 1000 unique POP3 logins to be completed every few mins, and loads of account maintenance.

At present I have an ISP that holds all email for @domain.com under a single multi-user account. All I need is a single POP login to this account, and Exchange then works out who to send the emails to i.e. the one originally addressed to A should reach A and only A etc.

If I create a new account and configure SME server to forward all individual email to this account, the Exchange server doesnt have the information on who it was originally sent to since the new account is itself only a single user.

As for delegating email to the exchange server, I'm just a bit concerned to have the Exchange server as accessible directly from the internet, since it's our only server and does EVERYTHING! If it goes down then so does the company. I'd be far happier if the Exchange server only contacted the SME server and had no direct port access from the rest of the world.

Andy