Chuck,
I had the same problem with a few of my clients. No, you can't "store and
forward" to a client without a static IP. Here's how i got around it.
Create a single account for the client and create a "nobody" alias that
points to that account.
Install some sort of POP forwarding software, I used EFS from
www.chimera.co.nz because it's free and it works well. Point the pop
forwarder to the account you created, it will download all the mail from
the imail server and without changing the To: header will forward it to the
exchange server using smtp.
The trouble with this is that EFS has no built-in dialer, I set exchange to
dial out to send mail every 30 minutes with a 15 minute timeout, whether or
not there was actually any outgoing mail. I then set EFS to check for mail
every 15 minutes, you get a lot of error messages in the EFS log file if
Exchange isn't dialed in when EFS checks for mail, i told the client to
ignore EFS errors unless they don't receive mail for a few hours. (they
generally have new mail every time it checks) you can use some sort of DUN
scheduler if you want. I didn't want to add another software package into
an already ugly solution.
It's ugly, but it works.
good luck,
Pete
>We have a dial up client that wants to run MS Exchange 2000 in their office.
>The catch is that they do not want a static IP address. We use Imail 5.08
>and are presently hosting their email boxes on our server.
>
>Can we set up a store and forward scenario without a static IP for their
>Server? I did not see that as a possibility in my reading of the knowledge
>base.
>
>Can we set-up Exchange to query their individual mail boxes on the Imail
>server?
>
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