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[Guest]

I'm working on a simple windows 2000 network that doesn't use an exchange
server for email. How can I set up a simple inter-office email for about 10
users with 2000 server?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I'm working on a simple windows 2000 network that doesn't use an exchange
server for email. How can I set up a simple inter-office email for about 10
users with 2000 server?

You could buy a third-party POP3 mail server, e.g.
SmartServer or VPOP3. They come fairly cheap and
are fairly powerful. However . . .

I have used a number of them over the years and I'm
left somewhat dissatisfied. Some have compatibility
problems with recent Windows service packs - the
solution is invariably to buy and install their latest products.
All of them suffer from the problem that they cannot
deliver incoming mail correctly if the adresses are
listed in the BCC field.

These days I prefer to use an external mail server.
It costs only A$13 per month, it will probably do
everything you require and it does not suffer from
any of the above problems.

You could also install Windows 2003 Small Business
Server. It has Exchange built in.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Pegasus. Let me give you some more information. There is currently no
internet connect so there won't be any incoming email. This setup will only
be for in house communication through email. Do you know how to set that up
through IIS?

 

[Frankster]

I'm working on a simple windows 2000 network that doesn't

use an exchange server for email. How can I set up a simple
inter-office email for about 10 users with 2000 server?

I use Kerio Mail Server. Great product. But not free or cheap.

http://www.kerio.com/us/kms_home.html

-Frank

 

[Phillip Windell]

I'm working on a simple windows 2000 network that doesn't
Upgrade to Server2003. It has an SMTP Service and a POP3 Service. It takes
*both*.

SMTP "sends",....POP3 "receives"

I've never used POP3 in Sever2003. I can not tell what you can or can't do
with it,...I just saying that it is there. It may not be suitable, I don't
know. When it comes down to it there are no "free lunches".

 

[Frankster]

Upgrade to Server2003. It has an SMTP Service and a POP3 Service. It
takes
*both*.

SMTP "sends",....POP3 "receives"

I've never used POP3 in Sever2003. I can not tell what you can or can't do
with it,...I just saying that it is there. It may not be suitable, I
don't
know. When it comes down to it there are no "free lunches".

I'm running it on 2003 now W2K before that and NT before that. Love
the product. From the same source (Kerio) I also run Kerio Winroute
Firewall (enterprise network firewall). I like it better than ISA. Funny,
ISA and Exchange are available to me, fully licensed, as part of the MS
Partner Action Pack, but I prefer these two Kerio products, so I buy them


-Frank

 

[Phillip Windell]

I'm running it on 2003 now W2K before that and NT before that. Love
the product.

I didn't think NT and Win2000 had the POP3 Service, only SMTP.



BTW - We use ISA and a Watchgaurd box. But they run independently
(side-by-side) and are used for different purposes. Both are "edge" devices,
I run no "DMZs".
There is also a separate Cable and DSL lines with their own NAT box on them
for a specific isolated purpose each, but those are hardly worth mentioning.
One delivers video programming content while the other is used for the
"back-channel" for another device that receives video programming content
via satelite.

 

[Frankster]

I didn't think NT and Win2000 had the POP3 Service, only SMTP.

Right. The Kerio product includes both. I don't use the OS POP and SMTP.

-Frank

 

[Phillip Windell]

Ah! Ok.

Phil

Right. The Kerio product includes both. I don't use the OS POP and SMTP.

-Frank

 

[Guest]

I played with the system for a while yesterday and the interoffice email is
working using the microsoft mail postoffice service found in the control
panel. All of my workstations work fine accept I can't get my outlook 2003
systems to connect with the microsoft mail. Basically, on earlier versions of
outlook, you can add services through the tools|option tabs, add a service
such as personal folders and microsoft mail. Then direct them to the location
on your server for this mail. However, in outlook 2003 there is no service
option under the tools menu. Email Accounts is in it's place.

 

[Phillip Windell]

I played with the system for a while yesterday and the interoffice email is
working using the microsoft mail postoffice service found in the control
panel.

"Microsoft Mail"? Wasn't that before electricity? I think back then you
had to rub to mouse cords together to start the fire under it.

All of my workstations work fine accept I can't get my outlook 2003

Microsoft Mail is no longer an option for newer versions of Outlook.

Like I said in the first post,...there are no "Free Luches". Everything
either "costs something" or comes with a "catch".

 

[Guest]

That explains why I've never seen it before until now. Thanks for your help.