Re: Mail Boxes

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Watch you don't hit the 25 Mailbox limit of the POP Connector.

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Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
CI Information Technology
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Melbourne SBS Users Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/melb-SBSusers/

"Ian B" <ianb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7623FD8E-E4CF-4922-9A4E-40DCF26ADCCD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Well, you made me sort it out, thanks
>
> It is all very simple!
>
> Use the Global mailbox, and then the routing rules.
>
> No gold stars for me today!
>
> "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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