>OK, but what about an external email that gets sent to the IMail >account? That automatically gets sent to the Exchanger server as >well, right?
No, that would only be in store-and-forward mode. In the replicated-accounts/dual-server setup, the mail stays on each server until it's retrieved by the client (viewed over RPC for Exchange Server service, downloaded over POP3/IMAP4 for the Internet Mail service). But the problem is that, for Exchange collaboration to be used in-house there're going to have to be messages that exist only on the Exchange server. These cannot be viewed through Imail webmail. >However, we're not going to drop our #2 client just for an email and >collaboration problem. Nobody's being that unreasonable. What we're saying is that, given... (a) a reliance on Exchange at your site (b) your boss' desire to collaborate with users at a client site over the web (c) your boss' dislike of OWA (d) your desire to keep your administrative workload down ...the best solution is a dedicated webmail product. If it's Windows-based, the server can also run your licensed copy of Imail, but that would only be used as a store-and-forward backup for Internet mail. You can check out HORDE/IMP at https://webmail.dti.net, and WorldClient at http://corp.imbot.com. E-mail me off-list and I'll give you temporary login creds. Of there's something else we're missing, please tell us. I suppose the users at the client don't have dedicated machines, either? Or is their IT staff--justifiably--against having contractors add new services to their boxes (though, if so, you never explained how you even came *close* to doing Exchange over the WAN). For that matter, Yahoo! lets you check POP3 boxes... Sandy Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
