Hi there,
I'm moving my e-mails over to exchange 2010 at the moment, but at least for a few months it is going to be hosted from a non-business line. It's 50/1.75 so speed isnt an issue, and in the 9 months I've had the connection, my IP hasn't changed once, so fairly static, but I can't guarentee it wont randomly change one day or be down for extended periods.
Where I work, all of our clients are on Message Labs, which is a great service that works twofold: firstly it has fantastic spam filtering, and secondly in the event that the exchange server is uncontactable, it stores emails and forwards them as soon as the connection is re-established.
Now, as great as it is, it's way beyond my budget.
My web hosting is a cpanel based one and does have some email forwarding options for use with exchange, but it isnt clear if it stores in the event of failure to deliver?
If not, what other options are there? There will only be one domain and <5 mailboxes.
Thanks guys,
Tom.
EDIT: Actually, looking at the cpanel set up more, this option looks interesting:
Baclup Mail Exchanger
Configure server as a backup mail exchanger. Mail will be held until a lower number mail exchanger is available.
Is this doing what i think it is? Set the IP of my exchange box as a low number MX, and have my webhosting as a higher number MX record and voila redundancy?
I'm moving my e-mails over to exchange 2010 at the moment, but at least for a few months it is going to be hosted from a non-business line. It's 50/1.75 so speed isnt an issue, and in the 9 months I've had the connection, my IP hasn't changed once, so fairly static, but I can't guarentee it wont randomly change one day or be down for extended periods.
Where I work, all of our clients are on Message Labs, which is a great service that works twofold: firstly it has fantastic spam filtering, and secondly in the event that the exchange server is uncontactable, it stores emails and forwards them as soon as the connection is re-established.
Now, as great as it is, it's way beyond my budget.
My web hosting is a cpanel based one and does have some email forwarding options for use with exchange, but it isnt clear if it stores in the event of failure to deliver?
If not, what other options are there? There will only be one domain and <5 mailboxes.
Thanks guys,
Tom.
EDIT: Actually, looking at the cpanel set up more, this option looks interesting:
Baclup Mail Exchanger
Configure server as a backup mail exchanger. Mail will be held until a lower number mail exchanger is available.
Is this doing what i think it is? Set the IP of my exchange box as a low number MX, and have my webhosting as a higher number MX record and voila redundancy?
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