Advanced Microsoft Exchange 2003 questions (POP3/SMTP/SPAM)

[gicio]

Hi!

Can someone tell me if something like this is possible with an Exchange 2003 Server?:

1.
Let say an Exchange 2003 Server is in a big company (e.g. company.com ).
All employees have a mailbox on this exchange 2003 Server.
All the employees has also a mailbox on a POP3/SMTP server pop3.company.com / smtp.company.com .

Can be an Exchange Server 2003 setup so that he automatically collects the mails from an employee pop3 account and put it automatically in his Exchange 2003 Server account???

So that the employee can only use the exchange account to collect all their mails and not from two accounts.


2.

What about Exchange 2003 Server and Spam protection in a company. Can someone provide me some information to this issue?


Kind regards,

gicio

[LiVeWiRe]

gicio,

As for question #1, it really depends on whether or not you are using the same domain name for both the email hosted by the ISP and the email hosted internally.

As for question #2, there are several products on the market that could help with spam. The good news is that MS just extended the use of their new Intelligent Messaging Filter to all running Exchange 2003 instead of just those with Software Assurance Agreements. Of course, this won't be available until later this month. The best protection against spam is to run something like Trend's spam software in conjunction with say MS's new IMF.

HTH,
-LW