can pop accounts remain part of a mailbox for a user? 2

[blade1000]

hi there-

I will be deploying Exchange 2007 next week. The company I was contracted to has many small subsidiary businesses, some of the overall users are on an outside hosted Exchange 2003 email ISP and some have POP accounts..

Come next week, I'd like to begin bringing everyone into our in house Exchange 2007 platform. One question is that the customer would like to keep user's pop account active as well as create mailboxes for these users reflecting the new email system... is this viable, can it be done this way?

Oh yes, forgot to mention.. there is no AD running at any of the connected businesses here, I am bringing in Windows 2008 server and building AD from the ground up.

thanks in advance

blade

 

[Zelandakh]

Are the 2 email addresses the same or different?

 

[blade1000]

They may end up being different....

thanks again

blade

 

[Zelandakh]

Are you using SBS or full Exchange?

You can use Outlook to POP the email in to the Exchange server and have them reply via Exchange.
You can use the server to POP them directly into the Exchange mailbox using popconn or any of a dozen other variants.

Yes is basically the answer.

 

[blade1000]

Thanks to all!

I will use Zelandakh's suggestions and google the research behind it..


blade

 

[blade1000]

So Zelandakh,

The basic premise here is to allow these users the ability to use their existing pop acct as well has add "more" exchange accounts that reflect mapi (full blown Outlook 07 client) usage...

thanks -time to research!

blade

 

[58sniper]

Ideally, users should be using MAPI accounts. If POP3 must be used to access remote accounts, then a POP3 connector makes sense, as all of the configuration takes place at the server. Plus, once those account are deleted, you don't have to go around to each workstation to cleanup Outlook.

FWIW - POP3 is very antiquated, it's slow, inefficient, featureless. An org would be wise to move away from POP3 whenever possible.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[blade1000]

I hear ya Pat... I know POP accounts in today's email environments are soo out of touch but the company here does require we keep them as well as "add" mapi accounts for certain users for the time being in Exchange 2007.

So sir, you mention these pop connectors.. are they created withing Exchange 2007 as an internal feature? or do I need to download/purchase these pop type connectors separately after I implement Exchange 2007 here..

Any info would be much appreciated.

Thanks again

blade

 

[58sniper]

They are third party program you'd have to buy.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[Zelandakh]

and I'd recommend popconn.

 

[blade1000]

Thanks to Pat and Zelandakh.. still having install problems but once this is ironed out it will be time to purchase popconn..

Good day all!

blade

 

[blade1000]

Zelandakh,

I am placing an order to purchase Popconn based on my thread/pop inquiry above.

As far as installation goes, can you please offer your expertise at all describing where/what role to install them. In this case, all roles except Edge is on same server (it's for roughly 150 mailboxes, or less).

any info would be appreciated

blade

 

[Zelandakh]

Then I'd suggest installing it on the only server you've got!! POP for 150 users? Oh brother are you ever a glutton for punishment...

 

[58sniper]

Ouch. Double Ouch. I'd REALLY push to stop POP3.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[blade1000]

Zen and Pat,

No out of the 150 accts, roughly 45 accts are pop3, not much better but less the half of the 150 catastrophe that could've been.

blade