Embarrassingly Simple Question on the use of Exchange!

[MikeTheMerciless]

I’m hoping one of you good fellas would be able to give me an answer to just a quick query on the fundamentals of a program like Exchange:

I noticed that our company Email address used the Email Forwarding from the company that hosted our web page, and the address was assoc@intcentre.com. As we have the ability for unlimited Email forwarding, I added a new account called accounts@intcentre.com. What I then noticed was that on both Outlook Express mail clients on both people’s computers would receive any and all messages sent to the domain @intcentre.com; as opposed to assoc only receiving emails addressed to assoc@intcentre.com.

Am I correct in thinking that this is where a mail server with Exchange 2000 comes in; routing the Email to the correct user based on who it’s addressed to?

Sincere thanks to any help on this matter!
Kind regards,
Michael

 

[999Dom999]

Well exchange could do the routing, but if its just email forwarding for 2 accounts then exchange would be a bit overkill for what you need. Where does the mail to @intcentre.com get forwarded to? Is it a pop3 account. If so you could get your mail forwarding company to forward each address to a different pop3 account and just change the "reply to" setting in outlook express to the corresponding address. Looks like at the moment they are forwarding anything @intcentre.com to one account. Hope that helps