Re: mail server

If you can't possibly avoid it, don't use POP3 on a server to receive mail
to redistribute to other mail boxes. It's not really reliable and a pain in
the *%�@. It's a server to client protocol not server to server. Use SMTP.
Having said that, if you are using Exchange, it is quite easy to set up IMS
and POP3 connector for a regular dial-up or ISDN connection. The ISP takes
care of all the DNS stuff, all you need to do is set up Exchange make sure
the SMTP addresses of the internal mailboxes match the POP3 mail box
addresses. The Connector is self-explanatory, it's just POP3 and therefore
not what you want to use for a server to server solution. Most other mail
servers for NT are SMTP, which means getting the ISP to set up the right
account and DNS entries for you. If it's a small installation, you really
don't need to know more than the basics of DNS and you could probably do it
with no knowledge of DNS at all if your ISP is helpful.

Read Paul Robicheaux's book on Exchange from O'Reilly if you need info on
Exchange.
HTH

Kathy Evans

----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa Whirrett <lisa(at)justlisa.com>
To: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 6:27 PM
Subject: mail server


> I am trying to set up an email server on a NT box without much luck.  I
have
> found a couple of articles at Microsoft but they are incredibly long and
> cover a lot of topics not related to mail.  Does anyone know of a good
> online resource that is easy to read?  Maybe I am wrong, but I can't
imagine
> that one must read thousands of pages relating to DNS and zones just to
get
> pop3 mail working  : )
>
> Thanks
> Lisa
>
>
>

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