Adding ISP e-mail account to an Exchange e-mail account

Hi,

My company is merging with another (small company, 2 employees), and I have
to add them to my exchange server. Easy enough to create them a
domain/exchange account, but their current work e-mail is a bellsouth
account, and their Outlook 2003 is configured to use that account. Do I add
our exchange account to their Outlook 2003 and leave the bellsouth account
alone? And on Exchange, do I add their bellsouth account to their list of
SMTP e-mail addresses along with their exchange account? or is there a better
way to do this.

Thanks for any advice!

Mike

Martin
Wed Oct 01 13:25:46 CDT 2008

Just to make sure I understand you.
These 2 people have Bellsouth.com email addresses, correct? Not a company
owned domain, but their ISP domain.

What I would do is have them go to Bellsouth (they probably have some
webmail function) and set their accounts up to forward all email to their
new email addresses at your company (bob@company.com).
Then I would create new accounts for them.
On their computers, create a new Outlook profile for their company email and
tell them to stop using the Bellsouth.
You may need to import their old email (PST or whatever) into their business
account so they have access to their old calendar, contacts, tasks.

"Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4841AA9B-E2F1-45A2-92F5-01715722B0AB@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> My company is merging with another (small company, 2 employees), and I
> have
> to add them to my exchange server. Easy enough to create them a
> domain/exchange account, but their current work e-mail is a bellsouth
> account, and their Outlook 2003 is configured to use that account. Do I
> add
> our exchange account to their Outlook 2003 and leave the bellsouth account
> alone? And on Exchange, do I add their bellsouth account to their list of
> SMTP e-mail addresses along with their exchange account? or is there a
> better
> way to do this.
>
> Thanks for any advice!
>
> Mike
>

Mike
Wed Oct 01 13:46:01 CDT 2008

Martin,

Yes that is correct, they don't really have company e-mail currently with
the existing business, just two bellsouth.net accounts. Sounds good, thanks!

Mike


"Martin Blackstone [MVP]" wrote:

> Just to make sure I understand you.
> These 2 people have Bellsouth.com email addresses, correct? Not a company
> owned domain, but their ISP domain.
>
> What I would do is have them go to Bellsouth (they probably have some
> webmail function) and set their accounts up to forward all email to their
> new email addresses at your company (bob@company.com).
> Then I would create new accounts for them.
> On their computers, create a new Outlook profile for their company email and
> tell them to stop using the Bellsouth.
> You may need to import their old email (PST or whatever) into their business
> account so they have access to their old calendar, contacts, tasks.
>
> "Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4841AA9B-E2F1-45A2-92F5-01715722B0AB@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > My company is merging with another (small company, 2 employees), and I
> > have
> > to add them to my exchange server. Easy enough to create them a
> > domain/exchange account, but their current work e-mail is a bellsouth
> > account, and their Outlook 2003 is configured to use that account. Do I
> > add
> > our exchange account to their Outlook 2003 and leave the bellsouth account
> > alone? And on Exchange, do I add their bellsouth account to their list of
> > SMTP e-mail addresses along with their exchange account? or is there a
> > better
> > way to do this.
> >
> > Thanks for any advice!
> >
> > Mike
> >
>
>