Temperory SMTP client

Hi Guys

Can anyone recommend a free email client that will just receive all emails
on SMTP. I'm upgrading our exchange server and would like to still receive
emails whilst the server is down. Any ideas?

Jonny

Lanwench
Fri Nov 18 09:00:12 CST 2005



In news:dlkh9d$qj3$1$830fa7a5@news.demon.co.uk,
Jonny Wilkinson <jonny@nospam.jonnywilk.co.uk> typed:
> Hi Guys
>
> Can anyone recommend a free email client that will just receive all
> emails on SMTP. I'm upgrading our exchange server and would like to
> still receive emails whilst the server is down. Any ideas?
>
> Jonny

A client isn't the issue. You need a server to handle the mail while your
own server is unavailable. If you don't have another server on-site to which
you'd move mailboxes, you could do this upgrade over a weekend and have
another server set up elsewhere to queue up the mail & retry delivery when
your server is back online. I don't usually want the hassle of managing this
myself - MailHop BackupMX at www.dyndns.org is very inexpensive.

Daniel
Fri Nov 18 22:06:50 CST 2005

Jonny Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> Can anyone recommend a free email client that will just receive all emails
> on SMTP. I'm upgrading our exchange server and would like to still receive
> emails whilst the server is down. Any ideas?
>
> Jonny
>
>
You'll need a server, not a client - IIS (on any win2k3 server) will
happily accept SMTP messages - just configure it up and test it, then
make it a secondary MX with a higher cost. mail will flow there when
your primary MX is down. might even be worthwhile to keep in place.


--
Sincerely,
Daniel S. Tate,
MCSA+Messaging,
Sun Certified Security, Network and Systems Administrator

Jonny
Sat Nov 19 16:12:56 CST 2005

Thanks,

This worked really well! Upgraded now so it's all fine

Jonny


"Daniel Tate" <dshane@chappai.net> wrote in message
news:5JKdnSor9_ZHOePenZ2dnUVZ_sydnZ2d@comcast.com...
> Jonny Wilkinson wrote:
>> Hi Guys
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a free email client that will just receive all
>> emails on SMTP. I'm upgrading our exchange server and would like to
>> still receive emails whilst the server is down. Any ideas?
>>
>> Jonny
> You'll need a server, not a client - IIS (on any win2k3 server) will
> happily accept SMTP messages - just configure it up and test it, then make
> it a secondary MX with a higher cost. mail will flow there when your
> primary MX is down. might even be worthwhile to keep in place.
>
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Daniel S. Tate,
> MCSA+Messaging,
> Sun Certified Security, Network and Systems Administrator