In this topic, I would like to share my experience in organizing a mail system in a company of up to 20 people. And also ask you for advice on the best organization.
Our company is worth Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 Premium.
This package already includes products such as Exchange 2003, WSS 2.0 (I upgraded to 3.0), SQL Server 2005, ISA Server 2004.
Currently, the postal hierarchy is structured as follows:
Exchange is configured only for internal mail and is not bound to an external domain. Those. each employee has an internal mailbox and they can send mail to each other and receive reminders from Windows Sharepoint Sevices and tasks from the director.
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External mail (via pop / smtp on the server of the hosting provider) is set up by the office manager (the general box of the company) and the director.
And if an employee needs to send a letter to the outside world, he sends it to the office manager, and he already sends it to the outside world.
All anything, but there are a few uncomfortable moments.
First MS Outlook 2003 works through time with an external mailbox. At the moment, Outlook 2003 refuses to receive / send mail from an external mailbox. Until I understood the reasons (I did not change the server konfu), and temporarily set up the external mailbox in Outlook Express (everything in it is perfectly received and sent - yes, only he does not know how to receive headers: hoster filter).
At the moment I cannot decide whether it is advisable to configure external mail on the Exchange server. Then it will solve the problem with an extra link in the form of an office manager. But it will raise the problem of spam, which our server will have to take on the chest. We pay for incoming traffic 1,5r. for MB.
Yandex offers Spamoboronu for small business, which takes 1024 clean letters per day (further spam is not eliminated). And what is important is the verification of letters for spam goes to the servers of Yandex. It turns out that we do not get on spam traffic?
Yes, and it is not clear whether it is worth giving all employees the opportunity to write to the Internet from personal corporate boxes.
If you have a similar experience, please share or express IMHO.
UPD: Google Apps is very attractive and like. But the idea of ​​Single sign-on is sad :(