OT: Internal Mail Server

Anyone had dealings with internal mail-servers, specifically
what value
are they to a small company of say 10 people?
Is it not just as easy to set up outlook/outlook express on
those 10
workstations to recieve and send mail?
The question really is. What benefit are mailservers in a
small office?
Cheers,
Os.

Joe Makowiec wrote:
> On 22 Jan 2007 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Osgood wrote:
>
>
>>Hummm....I think this client was probably sold one
when they didn't
>>really need it. Now it's creating extra hassle to
make it communicate
>>with the external mail-server :(
>
>
> One thing you're going to find is that unless they
bought connectivity
> which specifically permits mailservers, one of several
things may be
> happening:
> - The ISP may block port 25, thus rendering the
mailserver unusable
> - The IP address that the server is on may be on a
blacklist somewhere
> because it's in a dynamic IP block (one that's assigned
dynamically to,
> say, your average home user)
> - The ISP hasn't established a rDNS (reverse DNS) for
the mailserver or
> the whole IP block
>
> You can get more information on this, particularly the
last two, by
> doing a web search for [RBL check] (RBL=realtime
blackhole list)
>
> You may be able to get around this by using the
mailserver for
> incoming, and setting up to use the ISP's SMTP server
for outgoing.
>
> If they don't have the technical expertise, they may
want to consider,
> as you propose, just using a hosting provider's mail
services.
Yeah it was becoming a big headache. I'd already tested email
through
the conventional channels, outlook express and everything was
running
smoothly. Then in comes this internal mail-server.
Anyway after several phone calls to tech support I finally
got one that
actually knew something. The simple problem was a catchall
email address
had never been intially set up on their severs, so nothing
was being
caught and sent on.
Damn silly mistakes take hours of my time to solve!

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