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Outlook pop3 and exchange problem

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Hello. We have a network (2003 server) with about 10 users that a couple of months ago did not have exchange. Everyone has one or two pop accounts that were fine going through Outlook. Management decided it was a good idea to get exchange. I explained that since we only use pop accounts, we could only use exchange for calendars, contacts, and stuff like that. They were ok with that. I installed exchange 2003 and showed them how to use the calendars and scheduling and stuff, but after a while they started getting mixed up with the exchange mailbox, and the personal folders. Now what's happening, is that let's say someone has to send an email to several clients, with a cc to someone inside our office or a mixture of both. The pop account tries to deliver the exchange email (internal) thinking it is somewhere on the internet. Of course, we keep getting the mail back with server not found. I tried puting the echange account first on the list of email accounts (outlook processes e-mail for these accounts in the following order) but still either the exchange comes back with an undelivered message(I think is because the email's address is john.doe@foobar.local) or the pop account insists on sending a local message through its servers. I told them that they had to change the account when they were compsing the message, but that does not work when you are sending a mixed address message.
My question is: can the exchage be setup to deliver ALL mail regardless of who the sender is?
They insist that they want to keep the emails in the personal folders, and the exchage email in the exchange mailbox. I am open for any suggestions. Thank you. Click.
 
Get rid of the POP accounts entirely. Change your MX record to deliver email to your server and don't do this in a Mickey Mouse configuration.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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That would be MY solution, as I have done in the past in other places, however these people have mostly laptops and notepads which they take on the road most of the time. They want to (are used to) have the pop3 account (personal folders) in their C:. I know that if at some point some hard drive takes a dive, there goes the data(it already happened once), but they don't understand, they are management! If I convince them to do it that way, I could always sync the personal folder with the exchange mailbox.
Mickey Mouse, that's funny, I hadn't heard that expression in a long time. Click.
 
Click, I don't think you have thought this through all the way. Set them up with Outlook Over HTTP. They won't know the difference between that and POP. They will still have full portability while actively syncing to Exchange.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

Check out my scripting solutions at
 
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