Scott, > I am trying to do a migration from Exchange to Imail 7.06 (Windows > 2000 Server). I have found that the structure is very different > between the two.
True enough, no argument there. > In Exchange, I can just add a user to the NT User > Database which attaches to a recipient account in Exchange. Once the > recipient account is created, I can add as many email addresses as I > want to under the recipient account. In Imail, you use Standard Aliases to do this. The logic is reversed in Exchange; Imail uses a more standard architecture. > User1 then sets up his email client software to access only one > account but receives mail for two email addresses. Apparently in > Imail, in order to accomplish this, I would have to decide which > email address to make the primary recipient (in our case, let's make > it [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Uh-huh. > I would have to set up a user called "User1" under a host called > "mail.domain1.com". Nuh-uh. You use a Host Alias, a.k.a. Domain Alias. Look it up in the manual. > Is there a better way? As you shall see, yes. > Another big problem I forsee with migrating to IMail is that all of our > customers currently have their client software set to access one domain > (example) mail.domain1.com as their POP3 server. From what I understand, a > user can only access his/her mail by setting the POP3 server for whichever > domain their email address is under. Example, if my email address is > [EMAIL PROTECTED], I have to check mail.domain2.com and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > has to check mail.domain3.com. This will create tons of additional work for > me because I'll have to contact every company that has a virtual domain with > us (over 200) and have them change their POP3 setting. If I'm way off base > here, please correct me. You can coalesce all of the users in a single database, making such a setup unnecessary. The main ramification is that you will not be able to duplicate primary user names--but you have that same restriction under Exchange. -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/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
