redirecting email to a pop box

Hello

Can anyone advise on how to do the following:

We have a SBS 2000 server with static ip hosting our own mail.

We have one fellow who is in and out of the office and is away for
weeks at a time sometimes. All we want to do is redirect all of his
mail including the internal mail to a pop account that our isp have
supplied.

TIA

Steve
Tue Aug 12 04:50:52 CDT 2003

Richard G wrote:

> Hello
>
> Can anyone advise on how to do the following:
>
> We have a SBS 2000 server with static ip hosting our own mail.
>
> We have one fellow who is in and out of the office and is away for
> weeks at a time sometimes. All we want to do is redirect all of his
> mail including the internal mail to a pop account that our isp have
> supplied.
>
> TIA

You have a couple of options:

1. You could let this user access his email on your server directly
from outside.
2. Forward his mail out to the ISP-supplied mailbox.

Personally, given that you have a static IP, I'd go with 1 rather than
2. This gives you more choices in how you handle things, the key
advantage that you could give IMAP access rather than POP3, and retain
his email on your server (so it gets backed up).

If you want to do 2, the steps are:

1. create an AD Contact using the email address of the external mailbox.
2. put the AD Contact you just created as the Forwarding Address in
Exchange General > Delivery Options of the AD User properties.

For option 1, if you want to allow POP access, you simply need to rerun
the ICW and tick the POP3 box in the firewall settings page. If you
want to use IMAP instead (more powerful, allows access to public
folders [email-type content only!], allows retention of messages on
server, allows user to be selective in what is downloaded), you need to
create a packet filter to allow incoming connections on port 143.
Setting OE up as an IMAP client is just as easy as POP3 - you just
change the server type from POP3 to IMAP when setting up the account.

The other advantage of using your own server is that it enables this
user to send using his organisation email address, rather than the POP3
mailbox address.

--
Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
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Kevin
Tue Aug 12 04:55:17 CDT 2003

1. go to AD Users & Computers

2. right click on Users, and select to create a New Contact, using the
external POP3 email address as you set upo this contact. Consider this
contact as an alias. For the display name, you may wish to enter something
like: John Doe (External) to distinguish it from John Doe's real email
account in AD

3. then right click on John Doe's actual User account in AD, and click on
Properties, then go to the Exchange General tab. Click on the delivery
button. In the middle of the screen click on to forward copies of all emails
to: and then browse and locate the contact name you created in step 1.
Finally click on the option that says to deliver all email to both accounts.

-kw

"Richard G" <rtg123@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> Can anyone advise on how to do the following:
>
> We have a SBS 2000 server with static ip hosting our own mail.
>
> We have one fellow who is in and out of the office and is away for
> weeks at a time sometimes. All we want to do is redirect all of his
> mail including the internal mail to a pop account that our isp have
> supplied.
>
> TIA
>
>

Kevin
Tue Aug 12 05:19:25 CDT 2003

Steve, setting up packet filters may come easy to some people, but not for
others - like me. I never know when to use the local vs remote ports, etc.
Can you detail how to setup Port 143 for IMAP?

But -- let me try first, and you tell me where I'm wrong -- using the ISA
wizard to create an IP Packet Filter:

Filtername: IMAP
Allow packets
Custom filter
IP Protocol: TCP
Direction: Inbound (??? when do you chooose inbound/.outbound rather than
both ???)
Local port: Fixed - 143
Remote port: All ports
Apply filter to: Default IP addresses
Apply filter to: All remote computers

Yes? No? Close, but no cigar?

Thanks
-kw


"Steve Foster [SBS MVP]" <steve.foster@picamar.co.uk> wrote in message
news:uyhk4cLYDHA.2620@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Richard G wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > Can anyone advise on how to do the following:
> >
> > We have a SBS 2000 server with static ip hosting our own mail.
> >
> > We have one fellow who is in and out of the office and is away for
> > weeks at a time sometimes. All we want to do is redirect all of his
> > mail including the internal mail to a pop account that our isp have
> > supplied.
> >
> > TIA
>
> You have a couple of options:
>
> 1. You could let this user access his email on your server directly
> from outside.
> 2. Forward his mail out to the ISP-supplied mailbox.
>
> Personally, given that you have a static IP, I'd go with 1 rather than
> 2. This gives you more choices in how you handle things, the key
> advantage that you could give IMAP access rather than POP3, and retain
> his email on your server (so it gets backed up).
>
> If you want to do 2, the steps are:
>
> 1. create an AD Contact using the email address of the external mailbox.
> 2. put the AD Contact you just created as the Forwarding Address in
> Exchange General > Delivery Options of the AD User properties.
>
> For option 1, if you want to allow POP access, you simply need to rerun
> the ICW and tick the POP3 box in the firewall settings page. If you
> want to use IMAP instead (more powerful, allows access to public
> folders [email-type content only!], allows retention of messages on
> server, allows user to be selective in what is downloaded), you need to
> create a packet filter to allow incoming connections on port 143.
> Setting OE up as an IMAP client is just as easy as POP3 - you just
> change the server type from POP3 to IMAP when setting up the account.
>
> The other advantage of using your own server is that it enables this
> user to send using his organisation email address, rather than the POP3
> mailbox address.
>
> --
> Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
> ---------------------------------------
> MVPs do not work for Microsoft. Please reply only to the newsgroups.

Steve
Tue Aug 12 05:46:08 CDT 2003

Kevin Weilbacher wrote:

> Steve, setting up packet filters may come easy to some people, but
> not for others - like me. I never know when to use the local vs
> remote ports, etc. Can you detail how to setup Port 143 for IMAP?
>
> But -- let me try first, and you tell me where I'm wrong -- using the
> ISA wizard to create an IP Packet Filter:
>
> Filtername: IMAP
> Allow packets
> Custom filter
> IP Protocol: TCP
> Direction: Inbound (??? when do you chooose inbound/.outbound rather
> than both ???)
> Local port: Fixed - 143
> Remote port: All ports
> Apply filter to: Default IP addresses
> Apply filter to: All remote computers
>
> Yes? No? Close, but no cigar?
>

Spot on.

The direction refers to how the TCP/IP conversation is initiated.
Outbound means connections from inside to outside (ie going out of the
network), Inbound means connections from outside to inside (ie coming
into the network). Both means they can start either way. Using Both is
actually pretty rare.

Generally, only one "end" of the filter will be a fixed port, the other
will be dynamic. Which end should be fixed depends on the direction,
but it's the "destination" end that is normally fixed, so Outbound
filters will have a fixed Remote Port, Inbound filters will have a
fixed Local Port.

--
Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
---------------------------------------
MVPs do not work for Microsoft. Please reply only to the newsgroups.

Kevin
Tue Aug 12 19:40:15 CDT 2003

Thanks, Steve.

I know that just asking for the answer would be the easy and fast way -- but
I do like to actually think I can still learn and understand new things!
After all, it only took me three years to learn how to spell DOS!
-kw

"Steve Foster [SBS MVP]" <steve.foster@picamar.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ePP6w7LYDHA.384@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Kevin Weilbacher wrote:
>
> > Steve, setting up packet filters may come easy to some people, but
> > not for others - like me. I never know when to use the local vs
> > remote ports, etc. Can you detail how to setup Port 143 for IMAP?
> >
> > But -- let me try first, and you tell me where I'm wrong -- using the
> > ISA wizard to create an IP Packet Filter:
> >
> > Filtername: IMAP
> > Allow packets
> > Custom filter
> > IP Protocol: TCP
> > Direction: Inbound (??? when do you chooose inbound/.outbound rather
> > than both ???)
> > Local port: Fixed - 143
> > Remote port: All ports
> > Apply filter to: Default IP addresses
> > Apply filter to: All remote computers
> >
> > Yes? No? Close, but no cigar?
> >
>
> Spot on.
>
> The direction refers to how the TCP/IP conversation is initiated.
> Outbound means connections from inside to outside (ie going out of the
> network), Inbound means connections from outside to inside (ie coming
> into the network). Both means they can start either way. Using Both is
> actually pretty rare.
>
> Generally, only one "end" of the filter will be a fixed port, the other
> will be dynamic. Which end should be fixed depends on the direction,
> but it's the "destination" end that is normally fixed, so Outbound
> filters will have a fixed Remote Port, Inbound filters will have a
> fixed Local Port.
>
> --
> Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
> ---------------------------------------
> MVPs do not work for Microsoft. Please reply only to the newsgroups.