Mailserver Assistance....

[WhyMe]

We have a dial up ISP with one email account. I would like to run a Windows mailserver or similar program that only used this one email address when sending out any email, but when receiving mail split it up into separate mail boxes on our mail server depending on the senders address.

This only needs to be done for 4 or 5 users that will access the mail on our LAN so a large corporate server is an overkill.


Any ideas/suggestions?

 

[martind1]

outlook uses filters that can do this.


otherwise there are a ton of programs out there on places liek download.com that do exactly this.

look around, suggested search "pop server"

that will get some results.

 

[wlee]

This is the program I use to do that, though I have 25users. MDaemon What you really need to do is have your ISP setup a "catch-all" alias mailbox. That way *ANY* mail coming to your domain is dumped into that box. From that single pop box, your mailserver picks it up and distributes it to the actual user box that you create. The advantage is that you can create as many diff accounts as you want ( have license for ) and modify or delete them at your leisure. Anything that doesn't match one of the account names you've setup goes to the local postmaster box. Another advantage is that the user perceived speed is very high since they are prob going to connect to the local server @ 100Mbit.

 

[martind1]

I think you misunderstood what he wanted (or did i?). He doesn't want a pop server for his domain.

he wants multiple people to get email form 1 email address so that someone@hotmail.com is divided up to Sue and Rob and Joey based on who sent the email.

 

[gunrunnerjohn]

There are a number of mail servers that will fetch your mail from one or more POP accounts, then run a local POP3 server on your machine and let you do what you desire. Here's just a sample.

ArGoSoft
IpSwitch IMail
Deerfield MailServer

 

[dpain]

Windows 2003 Server includes a free pop3 and smtp email server now that works pretty good, but you are going to have trouble setting up what your trying to do on any email system. Email sorts into mailboxes by incoming address(Which you have only one). You can easily set it up so all accounts send as a single address so that part is easy. What you may have to do is use a pop3 server like the free one in Win2k3, and use filtering in outlook at the client end to determine which client gets which email delivered locally. Each client will pull from the same mailbox on the server, but through filtering only their own will show up in there localally delivered .pst file. Hard to explain, but I hope I got the idea accross.

dpain

 

[WhyMe]

Thanks for your help people.

I'll let you know how I fair. I knew how to filter from the client end, it was server side i was stumped with, i'll try those POP3 thingys.

Yes. Thingy's is the technical term.

 

[dpain]

If you did go the exchange route, it will cost more, but you can do what you want to do by using server side rules. But that is overkill for just email. 5 user lic goes for about $1,250.

Dpain