TRD3000GT Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 ok, I need to set up the company with an email solution... We are always on the move and have desktops and laptops that NEED the same emails and meetings on them. Ive been told several ways to do this but Im most interested in the microsoft exchange solution.. I can have my ISP forward emails to an exchange area (I HAVE NO IDEA WHICH ONE do any of you know anything about http://www.1and1.co.uk ) I will need to purchase and then the emails are distributed to all the machines that have not yet syncronised with their account yet.. Im just confused and need a bit of help.. SO HELP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveRex Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Yhm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SUPRA FLY Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa no Sorry mate, I need to set up the company with an email solution... Was the onlu part of your question I understood ...... could be havin a moment but I think it would be safe to say that it is a slightly just tiny bitsy slightly challenging question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
how_supra Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 ok, I need to set up the company with an email solution... We are always on the move and have desktops and laptops that NEED the same emails and meetings on them. Ive been told several ways to do this but Im most interested in the microsoft exchange solution.. I can have my ISP forward emails to an exchange area (I HAVE NO IDEA WHICH ONE do any of you know anything about http://www.1and1.co.uk ) I will need to purchase and then the emails are distributed to all the machines that have not yet syncronised with their account yet.. Im just confused and need a bit of help.. SO HELP Not a 100% solution, but Blackberry devises can be synchronised to your work server so that emails of particular users for example can be sent to this handheld device. Great for the people on the go. Our group CEO and Directors use them Not entirely what you were asking........I'll get my coat My IT department as per usual are not around, otherwise I would ask them...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRD3000GT Posted April 13, 2005 Author Share Posted April 13, 2005 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa no Sorry mate, Was the onlu part of your question I understood ...... could be havin a moment but I think it would be safe to say that it is a slightly just tiny bitsy slightly challenging question http://nastystart.org/images/news/quote10022003.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Okay... You need to work out whether you want to set up a dedicated exchange server or just use your ISP's email solution.. If it is just for a few email addresses, then I would suggest using the ISP's email server, and setting up something like outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird using pop3 or imap, and just pull the email directly from the ISP. By going this option it also means that you can retrieve email with only an internet connection rather than installing a VPN solution on the client machines. Just a few thoughts...remember exchange is not cheap, and you will need to have an active directory for exchange to work. Gav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 If you want to go the exchange route, which will give you a nice web front end as well for internet access, as well as full colabrative features such as meetings, shared calendars, shared address books and stuff, it is very good going with exchange as it is full featured.. Just be aware of the costs tho.. For a small setup... you might want to consider something such as Microsoft Small Business Server which will provide you will all the features... Call me if you need more info, I'll pm you my phone number.... Gav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieSteve Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Got a firewall set up? If so what kind? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRD3000GT Posted April 13, 2005 Author Share Posted April 13, 2005 Okay... You need to work out whether you want to set up a dedicated exchange server or just use your ISP's email solution.. If it is just for a few email addresses, then I would suggest using the ISP's email server, and setting up something like outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird using pop3 or imap, and just pull the email directly from the ISP. By going this option it also means that you can retrieve email with only an internet connection rather than installing a VPN solution on the client machines. Just a few thoughts...remember exchange is not cheap, and you will need to have an active directory for exchange to work. Gav GAV, You sound like the man in the know ! FINALLY I was considering an IMAP solution but then im not 100% sure what would happen with sent emails being on both machines and also what the space restrictions would be of an imap account? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 The ISP I use for all my hosting gives me 20megs per mailbox, and I've got a total of 10 mailboxes... ISP options POP3, it will pull down the email by default down to the client removing them from the server...which is fine unless you use multiple machines, this can however be gotten round by clicking on an option.. IMAP4, it will remain on the server as long as you don't move them into custom folders, which means you can log on from various machines to check your email.. Both these are options are restricted down to what your ISP gives you mailbox space wise.. Advantages - Someone else's servet, they maintain it, they back it up, they feed and water it Disadvantages - Not unlimited diskspace, limited accounts and rules and fancy bits Own Server option Advantages - If you get your ISP to forward all mail to your exchange server, then you have the option of having as many email addresses as you want on your domain. You will be able to configure meetings and lots of good stuff. Disadvantages - Software costs, server costs, maintanence.... Unless meeting scheduling and stuff like that is an ABSOLUTE requirement, I would hand it all over to the ISP's mail server...so much easier in the long run. Gav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cashpoint Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Use IMAP here as well as POP from and MacOS X Server, as some employess have Desktops and laptops. The Imap works great but storages was a problem to start as all the mail is stored on the server and designers used to send graphics to each other , Storage has been solved (nice shinny XRaid ). Piss easy to set up, but then as it's all in house it easy to control as i don't need to call any monkey in a call center to solve a problem. I know that some of our customers have exchange servers where we just point the MX record to their servers and they then use webmail rather than imap for on the move clients though imap could be used. Can't help with the 1and1 thing as only used them when helping a friend setup his online shop. so don't know how you would use IMAP with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveRex Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Exchange is definitly overkill I would think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 I was considering an IMAP solution but then im not 100% sure what would happen with sent emails being on both machines and also what the space restrictions would be of an imap account? If you store your IMAP mail on the server, then your ISP will charge/limit you on your requirements. Problems may arise should you be a victim of a virus or something and your email boxes are filled rapidly reaching your max capacity. Our mail servers are IMAP ready, but we decided not to offer it as a general solution for fear of rapidly filling the hard drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 If you store your IMAP mail on the server, then your ISP will charge/limit you on your requirements. Problems may arise should you be a victim of a virus or something and your email boxes are filled rapidly reaching your max capacity. You would have the same problem with an unchecked POP3 account, altho by all accounts the ISP should offer a virus screening feature as part of their package... I personally use POP3 for mine, with all my general machines, just checking email and not deleting it from the server, and then my main machine at home pulls them down at 12pm everynight, and deletes them off the server... Gives me time to check them at work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 I personally use POP3 for mine, with all my general machines, just checking email and not deleting it from the server, and then my main machine at home pulls them down at 12pm everynight, and deletes them off the server... Gives me time to check them at work... We don't limit our POP3 accounts, no need. IMAP on the other hand... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 We don't limit our POP3 accounts, no need. IMAP on the other hand... Fully understandable... most users wouldn't configure the 'leave on server' option on POP3, and with IMAP they would just assume they can leave the email in the inbox...filling up the server nicely and in record time as well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 We're actually starting to put together a nice FreeBSD, Postfix, SpamAssasin, ClamAV solution to run on boxes within companies. Once installed - they just work. Configuration is up to the client as to if it stores local pop boxes or IMAP boxes. We can remotely maintain the servers for patches etc via fixed IP SSH. We can either host it for the client in our racks, or they can run on their own fixed IP connection. They then have their own Email with AV and Spam checker with as much storage as their HDD allows. Of course, this is just an email provision - it won't share your calendars, contacts, appointments etc etc like Exchange would...and isn't as easy to configure for a budding systems admin within the company. (Although I've managed to convert a few in the past!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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