Simple Exchange Server 2003 Help Needed!

[GeorgePal]

I'm theoretically the administrator on our small business server 2003 for performing the very basic stuff.
However, i installed Exchange 2003 the other day in order to have a more organized view of our contacts and emails.
We have a POP3 account from our isp and also another email address (xxx@companyname.gr), a domain name registed from the company that hosts companyname.gr, which forwards all emails to the pop3 account, and we receive them from them.
I 4 users of my network to be able to receive ALL the emails that the server is downloading and then being able to reply back, having as reply address the email I set and not the one which is automatically created by the server (which usually is username@servername.local).
Can someone guide me please for the above actions?
I also want the Outlook users (the 4 users that will get all the emails) to be able to share their sent emails, as well as their calendar, tasks and coctacts Outlook folders. Is that possible?
Finally, how can i set global antispam rules? Can i share the antispam rules one user sets to the rest of the network?

Many thanks in advance and apologies if my post is tiring..

 

[markdmac]

Lots going on here. Will try to answer all of your questions but I think I need more information on the domain names.

Do you have a static IP address? If so why do you still use POP and not fully use your exchange server?

Your desire to share sent items poses quite the challenge. This will be a real tough thing for you and your users to manage as there is no way I can think of except for your users to log in as a resource account and send mail as that specific account. This could easily be done with OWA from within your network.

Create a new user ID. On the user properties page click email addresses. Assign the address you want and set it as the default. Configure your POP3 Connector to download and deliver the mail to theis user.

Have your users that need to access the mail open up IE and go to

http://server/exchange/username.

This will let them read and send/receive mail as that resource account.

Sharing calendar, tasks, contacts is all done via Outlook but requires that your users are actually configured to use the Exchange server and not just POP mail.

After you installed Exchange, did you rerun the Connect to the Internet Wizard found int he SBS 2003 To Do List? You need to do that if you have not. It will update the recipient update services for you so that each of your users get a public email address configured ont heir ID plus it opens up the appropriate ports on the server etc. The Wizard will also help you configure the POP3 connector I mentioned earlier.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark