Couple of questions on hosted Exchange

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I'm looking to use a hosted Exchange service for my main business email address. However, I have several other mail addresses on the same domain that I don't really need to have on Exchange so want to leave on my own hosting. Is it possible to re-route just a single mail address to a hosted solution whilst leaving the others as they are?

Also, I currently have around 500 mails in the mailbox of the address I'm thinking of moving over to Exchange. What is the best way for me to migrate these over to Exchange?

Thanks
 
I'm looking to use a hosted Exchange service for my main business email address. However, I have several other mail addresses on the same domain that I don't really need to have on Exchange so want to leave on my own hosting. Is it possible to re-route just a single mail address to a hosted solution whilst leaving the others as they are?
Don't think so - Exchange will want to be the MX for the domain. You could probably set up a free forwarder to forward those addresses to another mailbox. Or you could add them as aliases for your main mailbox, so all mail arrives there.

Also, I currently have around 500 mails in the mailbox of the address I'm thinking of moving over to Exchange. What is the best way for me to migrate these over to Exchange?
Best way is to export them from whatever client your using (e.g. from Outlook as a PST), then import them into Outlook once you're connected to your Exchange account.
 
I agree with csmager. Not possible for a domains email capability to be on two sets of hosting. The MX records have to point to the correct servers for handling the mail.

Forwarding/aliases/contacts/groups will be your best bet for the not as important email. You will still need somewhere for this "catchall" stuff to go.
 
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Thanks guys, I suspected that was the case.

TBH, the other mail addresses are for receiving mail only, I don't send any from those addresses so having them as aliases for my main address is fine. Was hoping to reduce my storage requirements for Exchange really but not a big problem.

Cheers.
 
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