M$ Exchange

[nanaki333]

Ok, heres the deal. I want to get this place I'm working in off of exchange and on pop3. The only thing is, everyone has a bunch of folders on exchange. Some folders in the inbox, some outside of the inbox. What I want to do is get all of that e-mail to 'sync' up as well as their inbox. I don't know where to go or if you can even do that. Setting up a user for pop3 is no problem. It pulls everything from the inbox and leaves a copy on the server if checked to do so. All of the folders on there with older email do not come down though. Anybody know how to get all those other folders down with all the data in, and still keep all the e-mail in them as well as have it update the server if any is placed in there. Gotta keep that e-mail backed up too.

 

[MrChad]

Why in the world would you want to move from Exchange to POP3? Your users are going to lose a ton of functionality.

 

[spherrod]

Surely what you want to do is done best with Exchange?

 

[nanaki333]

well.. right now you need to dmz the box for offsite users to be able to login to exchange. i'm going to give this thing another go where you force exchange to use statically assigned ports. the other "tech" said he tried it, but i looked at the registry settings and the ports he said he had the data in as hexidecimal. gonna set them to decimal and if it works, then i can un-dmz that bastard. if not, i gotta move to pop3 for off-site users.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: nanaki333
well.. right now you need to dmz the box for offsite users to be able to login to exchange. i'm going to give this thing another go where you force exchange to use statically assigned ports. the other "tech" said he tried it, but i looked at the registry settings and the ports he said he had the data in as hexidecimal. gonna set them to decimal and if it works, then i can un-dmz that bastard. if not, i gotta move to pop3 for off-site users.

Why not set up webmail for off-site users? Or, better yet, setup a VPN server so that you can keep the exchange server behind the firewall.

 

[zodder]

I can't imagine taking away most of the Exchange functionality from my users. OWA and/or a vpn solution would be perfect for what you need. I have my off-site folks use OWA when they are out of the office and have a Sonicwall VPN setup between remote locations and my main office. It's really a "set and forget" operation.

 

[spherrod]

OWA on Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 is very good - you should really look into using this.

 

[nanaki333]

We have more than one office location and people hate using OWA. We do have it setup, but not many like using it and just want to use outlook.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: nanaki333
We have more than one office location and people hate using OWA. We do have it setup, but not many like using it and just want to use outlook.

In that case, I would look into going the VPN route.

 

[Sideswipe001]

I assumed you already looked here for information about trying to get Exchange to work without DMZing the server?

You should just have to open a few ports. Of course, OWA is easier, but I know how some people dont like it (had the same thing at my workplace). As a note, Exchange 2003 has a much nicer looking OWA.

 

[nanaki333]

yeah, that's what i'm going to try in my other post. the other "tech" did it but didn't set it to decimal when he entered the number. so the ports forwarded for that were different from what was actually entered. going to have to try it this weekend so nobody b!tches about e-mail being down if it doesn't work.

i like how you can e-mail someone and not get a response for hours, sometimes days. yet as soon as you take e-mail down, you get a call from everyone not even a minute later.