Schedule outgoing email. 1

[globale]

Hi,

Having a Exchange 5.5 server in a LAN and internet gateway is a cisco router, so no dialups configured in exchange.

This customer wants their email to be send at scheduled times, so like once every hour.
At this moment, email is send right away through exchange and by the router, resulting is quite high isdn costs.

Switching out the router is not really an option, since this will probably result in non-delivery reports etc...

Does anybody have ideas about this?


Thanks a lot in advance!

Robert.

 

[S1ick]

When we had ISDN we used a Scheduled ETRN Kicked to reduce costs. I think it was called Mail Run Monkey. We found out afterwards it was also cheaper to has a leasted line installed and brunt the cost of a Cisco 2500 router.

 

[globale]

Great, thx for your answer.

Is this Mail Run Monkey program also for outbound email or is only to pickup incoming email once an hour or something like that?

cheers

 

[S1ick]

Yes it does, it is ideal for Exchange using ISDN lines. It is a ETRN Kicker (opens your mail gateway to your ISP)and mail run scheduler all in one program and can be setup to run at any five min intervals (we had it set on 30 mins). It is also multi domain name aware. You can download a eval version from

http://www.ulticonn.co.uk.

Hope this helped you.

 

[JonnyCNS]

This works great, thanks, very useful thread