Re: If Only ...
From: Adam Selene (as_at_freeluna.org)
Date: 03/24/04
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:37:02 -0600
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:03:16 -0500, "Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]"
<gwdibble@NOSPAM.frontiernet.net> wrote:
>I just changed hosting companies and have had similar issues to what you
>describe. If your ISP has a webmail interface, you could set up a test
>account or two to work with the POP connector, while everyone else's mail is
>just left on the server. They can read it in the webmail interface, and
>just leave it in the POP mailbox until you decide how to deal with it
>otherwise.
>
That's true and it looks as if that's what I'm going to have to do.
However, I don't feel that the "test" account(s) are going to see the
kinds of traffic that "live" accounts would.
The scenario I'm talking about here would be where the server may or
may not be cabled up to the existing peer-to-peer network during
configuration.
Part of my hesitation is surely my inexperience with Exchange but I'm
expecting to have to add AntiVirus and Spam control tools and I'd
really like to be able to test with "live" email. Right now, I just
don't see a way to do that.
>Assuming your POP situation is stable on the ISP end, I don't think you risk
>losing any mail with the POP connector. It's reliable if configured
>correctly, and if it's not configured right it won't be accessing the
>mailboxes anyway. Once the mail finds its way into the Exchnage mailboxes,
>it can always be exported to a PST or shipped back out to the ISP if
>something happens, such as the need to reinstall SBS or the decision to use
>different software altogether (although I can't imagine that any other
>software would be considered by someone who'd used SBS).
Yes, I would certainly agree if I were using only "test" accounts.
As far as .PST or "shipped back out to the ISP", I can only imagine
what your'e talking about. I've got a tall hill to climb. :(
Thanks for the come-back.
>
>
>"Adam Selene" <as@freeluna.org> wrote in message
>news:b5p360ht4mqdbjbpn1n5iaifko1miluj6c@4ax.com...
>> It seems to me that small businesses looking to migrate to their first
>> server using SBS2003 would benefit from some ability to run pilot
>> projects prior to actual "live" turn-on of the domain served network.
>>
>> A big obstacle to this would seem to be an apparent inability to
>> configure Exchange 2003 POP3 connectors with the ability to "leave
>> mail on server" similar to what Outlook xxxx can do without Exchange.
>>
>> I've looked and looked but I can't find a way to test POP3 email
>> configurations using actual email accounts without risking loss of
>> mail.
>>
>> As it stands, it appears to me that one must set up a flock of
>> "temporary" email accounts at one's ISP in order to experiment with
>> various configuration options. Depending on one's ISP, this may or
>> may not be an easy thing to accomplish.
>>
>> If I'm misinformed, I'd appreciate being corrected. But it would seem
>> to have been a rather simple capability to build into the POP3
>> connector.
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>> --
>> ASelene
>
-- ASelene
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