POP2Exchange
http://www.12c4pc.com/Pop2Exchange.html
By Andy Goodman
I started a project evaluating the new Microsoft NT
Small Business Server* (read it here in a month or 2).
Things went pretty well until I tried to find a way for
the SBS Server to handle my e-mail. Microsoft offers a
wizard to accomplish this, but when I ran it all the
wizard could come up with was SpryNet for 200.00 dollars
a month. Be careful with this wizard. Before I knew it
I had a account with SpryNet. I called them after the
install finished and cancelled the account. A month
later it was on my credit card bill anyway. They did
remove the charge after I read all the times and dates
back to them. So the lesson is, document the whole
install process and save you notes. You may need them
later. $200.00 does not fit into the description of
small business most of my customers use. There was no
help, not from Microsoft, not from Best (whose services
I resell) and not even from Verio who said they were
supporting SBS (their techs kept saying not yet). I had
given up and was waiting for my cable company to get
around to installing cable modem support in my
neighborhood (which would allow me to run my own mail
server under SBS) when I happened upon POP2Exchange
from GFI. This little utility does what all the bigger
products can not seem to do. It gathers all your mail
and then sorts it out for you. You can download a
freeware version from http://www.gficomms.com which
will let you grab mail from one pop box and send it to
one exchange mail box which is not much, but will prove
to you that it works. For $99.00 they will e-mail you a
key that will allow it to do it's real job. It can grab
all the mail from [email protected] or
[email protected] and sort it out to the correct
exchange mail box based on the to name in the header.
So now instead of $200.00 a month I can use my $30.00 a
month Best account and have separate mail for everyone
in my organization. (5 boxes on my test system). GFI
also makes fax server and workflow software. So if you
are in the market for any of these type products take a
look at http://www.gfifax.com/