Well, I'm semi-technical and I'd like ot keep this as clean and uncomplicated as possible. The idea of all of this is that when one of our employees is at the client's site that they can retrieve their email from IMail and when they're in the office they can connect thru Exchange. When the "get mail" request is made exchange pulls the emails down from the IMail server into their Outlook client.
Troy > >we had a very UNtechnical client runing this way very successfully. > >Exchange for internal collab stuff > > Maybe they were untechnical, but who did their support? Either their > collaboration functionality was hampered by the setup or somebody > tweaked each user's MAPI profile from the default to make it work. > > >two personalities in Lookout, which even the dumbest of them > >understood. > > No such thing as personalities in Outlook, though, so they must have > been super-smart to make that work ;). Personalities are only in OE. > > >Even when somebody sent mail to an internal user but using the user's > >public email address, the mail still arrived. > > Sure it did, it just went out to Imail, where all of the accounts were > synchronized *by hand* with the Exchange database. And when they sent > using Exchange internally, they had a different set of logfiles that > they'd have to massage in to get an idea of their overall usage. I > don't like to work this way, I don't know about you. > > Also, how do you propose that users would be able to read all-internal > mail from the Imail server, if it never gets there? > > >in the DMZ, you could set up a webmail server that read POP or IMAP > >boxes on the exchange box. the strict firewall would allow ONLY the > >DMZ webmail server through, which would be a tiny, simple allowance > >by the firewall. > > I thought this was what we were talking about at the very beginning, > when I mentioned WorldClient and you suggested an open-source app. It > would also allow people to actually read ALL of their mail, because > the only place that's getting ALL of their mail is gonna be inside. > > Sandy > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
