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MarkR - 12 Feb 2006 00:57 GMT

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

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Bharat Suneja - 12 Feb 2006 18:14 GMT

- 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.

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> My apologies in advance for asking such a basic question...
>
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> Thanks,
> Mark

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Mark Arnold [MVP] - 12 Feb 2006 18:28 GMT

>- 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.
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>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.

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