Replacement for Microsoft Mail

[TakedownCA]

Hello, I'd like to implement something similar to Microsoft Mail to my company's email system that would allow interoffice emails to bypass the internet. I know there is a workaround that lets one install Microsoft Mail, but I'd rather not use unsupported software/techniques. The computers are using Outlook 2000-2003. Any advice is appreciated.

 

[MrChad]

Microsoft Exchange? Isn't Microsoft Mail about 4 generations old?

 

[beer]

That would be MS Exchange. I think you've missed about five generations since the days of Microsoft Mail, which were around, oh, NT4?

 

[Confused]

We've been using MSMail4XP and MSMail2003 with Outlook and our MSMail servers for well over a year without any problems at all.

Our MSMail is working absolutely perfectly, we can have as many users as we like, and the programs that give MSMail support back to Outlook XP/2003 work absolutely fine.


Confused

 

[MrChad]

Is there even a migration path from Mail to Exchange 2003?

 

[TakedownCA]

I've never had to work with Exchange. Is it included with Win2K (which is what we're running btw) or would we have to purchase it?

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: TakedownCA
I've never had to work with Exchange. Is it included with Win2K (which is what we're running btw) or would we have to purchase it?

Yes you would need to purchase it. Sounds like you wouldn't want to, since it costs a few thousand dollars, plus whatever CAL's you would need to buy.


CDW price on exchange 2003 plus 25 cals

 

[TakedownCA]

You are correct. I'd rather not have to purchase anything, although buying a relatively cheap email program isn't out of the question. But we definitely don't want to put a few thousand dollars just for email. All we really want is insurance that even when our isp email doesn't work (which happens fairly frequently) that we can still email within the company.

 

[Czar]

use your own sendmail server and that the dns records for your domain points to your local server

 

[TakedownCA]

Can you expand on that? Thanks

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: TakedownCA
Can you expand on that? Thanks

sendmail is an email server app that runs on Linux. It's free to use, but you're all on your own for setting it up.

 

[TakedownCA]

Yeah, not looking to learn how to setup linux just for mail server. But thanks for the advice/info.

 

[Czar]

you dont realy need sendmail

but the dns records fix should work as well
When you send an email the email server reads the host for the email like somesite.com and finds its ip address, because what it seems that you are using an offiste dns server and no local copy that means that the email server has to wait for the dns server to respond.

Read up on dns servers in windows2000 and setup your own localy, set info for your own servers there and it should work.

Not my speciality, but I think it should work, would be great if someone who did know could confirm this

 

[Need4Speed]

Originally posted by: Confused
We've been using MSMail4XP and MSMail2003 with Outlook and our MSMail servers for well over a year without any problems at all.

Our MSMail is working absolutely perfectly, we can have as many users as we like, and the programs that give MSMail support back to Outlook XP/2003 work absolutely fine.


Confused

yep..thats we we use as well