Actually I have heard of something like this before. I don't think this is all that unusual.
I know the Mdaemon (http://www.mdaemon.com) has the ability to delete messages after so many days. Mdaemon is a ver full featured mail server, but it just doesn't have all the collaboration that exchange does. I used Mdaemon for years before moving to Exchange. Mike -----Original Message----- From: Cook, David A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 7:47 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Seriously been tasked with this Happy Friday to all. I should have saved this for a Monday morning as I'm sure it's going to bring many laughs and many people saying that this is absolutely crazy. I've been tasked with this though and I thus have to come up with a solution and pricing for the solution. I doubt it is anything that will seriously be implemented but here is the job at hand. I'm running Exchange 2000 with all incoming mail coming in through a Mail Marshal mail gateway. We had a situation a few months ago in which we had major AD replication issues that cause DCs/GCs to respond very slowly and in some cases not respond as DCs/GCs at all. This caused Exchange to be unusable and for all practical purposes we were in a network down situation for 3 days with Microsoft in house working the issue with us. As we all know if AD is down then Exchange is down also. The task is to make sending, receiving and access to recent emails available in the event of another network down situation. Obviously if the physical network is down this is impossible but if Exchange goes down then they want email to be available in some way. Since E2K relies on AD I figure this secondary access can not include E2K. My thought, and I don't think the money could be justified, is that I have some type of a POP server that no one ever logs into. I would have a mailbox for each user on that POP server and every message coming in from the internet would be forward from the gateway to Exchange like it currently is and a copy also sent to the POP server. The POP server would then need the functionality to automatically delete any emails over a certain age. In the event of Exchange being down we could notify everyone to open Outlook Express which we would have preconfigured through policy to point to the POP server and the users would be functional with respect to email. I'm prepared for some interesting responses to this crazy idea. Dave Cook Exchange Administrator Kutak Rock, LLP 402-231-8352 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ###################################################################### The information contained in this electronic mail transmission (including any accompanying attachments) is intended solely for its authorized recipient(s), and may be confidential and/or legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient, or responsible for delivering some or all of this transmission to an intended recipient, you have received this transmission in error and are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from reading, copying, printing, distributing or disclosing any of the information contained in it. In that event, please contact us immediately by telephone (402)346-6000 or by electronic mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and delete the original and all copies of this transmission (including any attachments) without reading or saving in any manner. Thank you. ###################################################################### _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
