Pop connector of choice? 2

[lebisol]

Hello everyone,
We have 'internal' exchange 2000 along with corresponding outsurced pop accounts. Rather than dealing with compleate 'in-house' exchange solution we decided to keep our external pop accounts for included spam/virus protection while keeping goodies of exchnage (ditribution groups,public calendars etc.)

I am looking for solution that will connect our exchnage boxes to these pop accounts so I can eliminate pop accounts in outlook.
I have seen a few software budles out there.
Anyone has a suggestion/experience with a few that cought my eye:
SmartPOP2Exchange

http://www.jam-software.com/smartpop2exchange/index.shtml

Native Pop3 Connector

http://www.mapilab.com/exchange/pop3_connector/

PopCon

http://www.christensen-software.com/popcon.htm

GFI MailEssentials

http://www.gfi.com/mes/

Many thanks for your oppinions and help!
All the best!

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[Zelandakh]

GFi Mail Essentials always gets my vote.

 

[Marcs41]

And PopCon Pro gets my favourite second.

Marc
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[lebisol]

Thank you Zelandakh and Marcs41!
After evaluating all these packedges I have to agree that my coices were as you have suggested.
GFI is a very very nice solution but it is a also a 'too much' of a packet at this point.
My choice come down to PopCon as a quick fix...while GFI will be one of those "to be desired".
Again, thanks for sharing your thoughts!
All the best!


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[alxgdwnds]

In the last four years I've been following a different way: I use Vpop3 (

http://www.pscs.co.uk).

This is a real e-mail server but it can be used as an highly configurable Exchange Pop3 Connector.

I use it because it is very useful when you want to share one account (e.g. info@mycompany) with different user: it can route the e-mail to the proper Exchange mailbox according to the destination name in the e-mail.

If you want tips on how to configure it I would be glad to help.

Alessandro

 

[lebisol]

Hi Alessandro!
Thanks for info, I will keep this in mind as mailing solution.
Also, PopConn can do the trick of distibution to 'distribution groups' if that group has members and a vaild smtp account/box.
Again, thanks for all of your thoughts.
All the best!

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[58sniper]

GFI Mail Essentials is on a good 3 dozen of our clients servers, and it runs fine. It also has some really cool features that you'll learn you can't live without.

Pat Richard, MCSE(2) MCSA:Messaging, CNA(2)