RE: Co-locating mail

[Lefkovics, William]

It is cheaper if the ISP hosts your email.  You can host it for a lot less than Exchange, too.  If you are just using Exchange for basic email you paid too much!   I think the headaches will still be there.  They'll just be different ones.  You are entrusting the service provider to have full backups, provide antivirus solutions, make additions and deletions in a timely manner.  How will you connect?  VPN to allow MAPI?  That might be expensive for 200 users.  So, IMAP or POP is it?  So much for collaboration.  Personally, I find dealing with ISP's and most ASP's a headache.    Speaking of headaches, perhaps we should look at why maintaining an Exchange server causes you headaches.   William     -----Original Message----- From: Anwar Qureshi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 6:56 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Co-locating mail I have Exchange 5.5 with 200 mailboxes. Director of the company is asking me if it is worth to co-locate emails with ISP. I checked with one of the ISP and looks like its very cheap if the ISP will host our company's email. I think the advantage will be that there will be less headaches for me to maintain emails within the company. I am not sure what will be the disadvantage of ISP hosting our company's mailboxes. That way I don't have to worry about antiviruse software on Exchange server, can use existing server for some other purpose and less administrative cost.   Any thoughts   Anwar List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm