Re: Mail Boxes
- From: "Ian B" <ianb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 01:03:02 -0700
Thanks, that starts me thinking!
On this basis, if I collect from each iIsP by individual name and don't use
a 'global' mail box, they shouldn't lose their envelope? Then they cvan be
passed on to the individual.
rgds
ib
"Andrew Hodgson" wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:01:08 -0700, "Ian B"
> <ianb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >our business is built from a number of acquisitions, and as a result each
> >staff member has several possible email addresses.
> >
> >We are having no problems picking up mail from the ISPs, but all mails are
> >being delivered to just one mail box; mine.
>
> Yuck. If this is POP3 from multiple ISPS, it sounds like a nightmare
> - I am not that fimiliar with the POP3 connector in SBS, but it sounds
> like it is dropping down to you as the postmaster because it can't
> find a recipient to deliver the mail to. This is because POP3 was
> designed to handle mail for one user only, and so the envelope
> information from the message is removed. Imagine having a mail room
> full of opened letters with no envelopes; you have to go on
> information on the letter itself to try and get the mail delivered to
> the right person - for example, on the letter's header.
>
> I am not sure of your arrangements, but would it be easier to try and
> get some sort of email forwarding in place at the ISP end? For
> example:
>
> sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --> jone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [...]
>
> There are lots of places that will provide this very cheaply, and it
> would mean that everything comes at the Exchange box destined for the
> one domain - which of course, you are having serviced via SMTP
> delivery?
>
> Thanks.
> Andrew.
> --
> Andrew Hodgson in Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK.
> My Email: use <andrew at hodgsonfamily dot org>.
>
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