[cobalt-users] [RaQ2] Offtopic: Another way of getting emails

["manitu" <manitu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

the following scenario is a bit exclusive, but probably someone of you has
ever encountered the same problem and knows a solution to it.

I've got a customer, a small company. This company has an internal intranet
and uses about 60 internal pop3 boxes. They use the Microsoft Exchange
server.

Now this customer wants to have his own website and email addresses over me.
He would like also about 60 pop3 boxes under the domain hosted by me.

Since online costs here in Germany are very high (about $1,5 per hour) the
company cannot be connected to the internet 24 x 7. So I have to find a way
to setup my server / his account so that all emails are stored somehow on my
server. My customer's internal (local) system then dials in about one time
per hour and "asks" my server to get all mails that were received so far.

The problem is that my customer does not like the idea to setup the same
pop3 boxes on my server as on his local server. He wants to have one
catch-all-address that forwards all emails (if connected) to this local
server.

First this seems easy. Setup one catch-all pop3 box, his exchange server
fetches all emails from this account and delivers it to the local pop3
boxes. The problem is that some emails (e.g. the ones generated by mailing
lists) don't containt the right "To:" fields. So his local system will
sometimes not be able to determine the right receiver.

The problem is now (for me) to find a solution how to keep all the internal
data used in a SMTP session. My customer has told about something like
"Q-SMTP" or "TURN" or "ETURN" I have never heard off....

Perhaps someone of you can help. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Manuel