Re: Advice needed - running Exchange

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In article <C157BB49-3F3D-4AA3-B392-A49A7778670E@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

I don't know exactly what I would need to use, whether it be POP3 or SMTP,
although I know most prefer SMTP as you mention. Would the benefit of POP3
be that all of the e-mail is still flowing through the ISP and in a Exchange
disaster, e-mail would still flow?

Yes, the primary benefit of the POP3 Connector is you don't need to
change anything with your mail hosting. Mail is still initially
delivered to the ISP's mail server. The POP3 Connector retrieves the
mail into Exchange rather than individual Outlook clients retrieving the
mail to separate .PST files.

There is a potential disaster recovery benefit to POP3 mail, but there
are easy and inexpensive ways to deal with this with direct SMTP as
well. The most common method is to use a "Backup MX provider" which
might cost a couple of dollars a month (total, not per mailbox).

While there are some technical disadvantages to using the POP3
Connector, the one that rarely gets mentioned is setting up a new user
becomes a 3-step process:

1. You create user account on SBS
2. You or ISP creates user account/mailbox on the ISP mail server
3. You run the POP3 Connector administrator (from Server Management) to
(in effect) "connect" the ISP mailbox to the SBS mailbox.

With SMTP mail, you complete step #1 and you're done.

-- Owen Williams (SBS MVP)
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