Re: E-mail woes

To say that Mr X is a complete idiot may be an understatement. No, it does
not make any sense at all. He has caused your client to take two giant steps
backwards. Contracting with a web developer to develop a web site is one
thing, but insisting that you move it and your email to his server is plain
stupid. I have many accounts where their web site is hosted externally, and
we use SBS to handle the mail via SMTP, and not POP3.

--
Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"


"Andrew M. Saucci, Jr." <spam-only@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23Dq4BZeLGHA.3104@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I just wanted some opinions on e-mail configuration. We had a
client using SBS with his MX pointed directly to his server, and it worked
fine for years. A few months ago, he contracted with a web developer to
host
his web site. The web developer (who we shall call Mr. X) insisted that
the
e-mail links in the web site would not work unless the DNS was transferred
to X's DNS machine and POP3 accounts were created. He said he had to have
a
"real" mail server for everything to work correctly. I tried to reason
with
Mr. X and our client, but X insisted that it had to be done his way-- just
pointing www.client.com to X's server wouldn't be sufficient, and it had
to
be POP3. Does this make any sense at all? What might X be trying to do
that
can't be done unless he hosts the e-mail? Ever since Mr. X got involved
we've had all sorts of mysterious e-mail problems there that have taken
lots
of time to troubleshoot, and meanwhile everything was working fine before
that. Besides, with the POP3 Connector, the mail takes as long as 15
minutes
to arrive. (I know about POP Beamer and may still use it there if I have
to.) I really would like to put everything back the way it was-- the way
everyone here seems to think an SBS should be set up-- but I'm going to
need
some solid facts if I'm to have any chance of explaining why X's approach
isn't the only way. Right now, all I have is X claiming that it just has
to
be POP3.




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