[SOLVED] POP and SMTP separated

[lwinstead]

Hi there. Forgive me if this has been asked before, but some brief searching came up with nothing.

I'll be moving our e-mail services from an external host to my internal ZCS server in the near future and I've got a question on setup. Right now, our external host has separate incoming and outgoing servers: pop.duratechindustries.net and mail.duratechindustries.net. That makes sense to me considering number of clients. Is there any reason why I should do the same thing for my internal ZCS server, with my measly 60 users? For that matter, I've already installed ZCS and use a singular URL for both POP and SMTP; what would it take to split them up?

Thanks in advance!

[uxbod]

Why ? If your hardware is coping then leave them together. Unless you are going to really scale then it is not necessary.

[lwinstead]

Again, I see my current host split up POP and MAIL (SMTP) and I can't help but wonder if I should. That's all. And if you'd split them up for scaling purposes, then I certainly don't need to.

Then again, I was thinking to completely avoid the headache of running around to each workstation to change e-mail server settings. Some of my people are Territory Managers who don't call the central office "home," too.

Still, that's what www.logmein.com is for, right?

Thanks for the reply uxbod!

Originally Posted by uxbod

Why ? If your hardware is coping then leave them together. Unless you are going to really scale then it is not necessary.