"Mark Bailey" <mark.e.bai***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a situation where I need to stop Outlook 2003 from receiving
> mail from the users Exchange 2003 mailbox but still allow the use of
> calender & tasks. This is to allow a DMS to take over the management
> of email.
> Is this possible? How?
> This is with SBS 2003.
> Thanks,
> Mark Bailey

"Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]" <kweilbac***@gte.net> wrote in message
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>I suppose if you go into AD User properties for the user, and remove the
>default SMTP address assigned for the user (the one that points to their
>external public email address), that would stop emails from coming in.
>
> What is this DMS system you are looking at?
>
> --
> Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
> "The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
>
>
> "Mark Bailey" <mark.e.bai***@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:c8db9b71.0504082257.7d2dd34e@posting.google.com...
>>I have a situation where I need to stop Outlook 2003 from receiving
>> mail from the users Exchange 2003 mailbox but still allow the use of
>> calender & tasks. This is to allow a DMS to take over the management
>> of email.
>> Is this possible? How?
>> This is with SBS 2003.
>> Thanks,
>> Mark Bailey
>
>

"Mark Bailey" wrote:

> The DMS we are looking at is called AutoTrac Architect. It is system
> designed in the UK for use in an architectural practice. As well as
> the DMS side of things, which is pretty straight forward it also
> handles alot of financial forcasting, projects budgets etc.
> Potentially a very good system if they could just sort the email out.
> They are basically forcing people to move away from a feature rich app
> like Outlook (or even Thunderbird and the myriad of other excellent
> clients out there) for their browser based client which to be honest
> is junk. I feel that even if I can sort my problem out I will have a
> mutiny on my hands before the month is out!
>
> The DMS does not take over the email server role of Exchange. All it
> does is use a POP3 connector to pull the email from the exchange store
> and move it to its own temp dir. When people file the emails (they are
> forced to by the system when they reply, forward or compose - info
> like project name etc) the .eml file then gets moved to the same
> location as the rest of the related project data and the SQL DB is
> updated.
>
> It also sends outgoing email via the exchange SMTP.
>
> Ideally what I would like to see happen is for some sort of conduit
> between the DMS SQL DB and Outlook so that the tagging of the message
> to the DB will happen from within Outlook. Then somehow the message
> would get saved from Outlook to the relevant location.
>
> I have found a number of apps that do parts of what I have described
> but not the whole hog. GFI Mail Archiver writes all incoming and
> outgoing messages to a SQL DB so thats a start!
>
> Right....about 35 hours left to find a solution!
>
> Thanks
> Mark
>

> Hi Mark,
>
> From Outlook select the file menu and "Work offline"
>
> That efectively disconnects you from the Exchange server but still
allows
> access. This will only work if the connection to exchange is setup in
cached
> mode.
>
> "Mark Bailey" wrote:
>
> > The DMS we are looking at is called AutoTrac Architect. It is
system
> > designed in the UK for use in an architectural practice. As well as
> > the DMS side of things, which is pretty straight forward it also
> > handles alot of financial forcasting, projects budgets etc.
> > Potentially a very good system if they could just sort the email
out.
> > They are basically forcing people to move away from a feature rich
app
> > like Outlook (or even Thunderbird and the myriad of other excellent
> > clients out there) for their browser based client which to be
honest
> > is junk. I feel that even if I can sort my problem out I will have
a
> > mutiny on my hands before the mont

> >
> > The DMS does not take over the email server role of Exchange. All
it
> > does is use a POP3 connector to pull the email from the exchange
store
> > and move it to its own temp dir. When people file the emails (they
are
> > forced to by the system when they reply, forward or compose - info
> > like project name etc) the .eml file then gets moved to the same
> > location as the rest of the related project data and the SQL DB is
> > updated.
> >
> > It also sends outgoing email via the exchange SMTP.
> >
> > Ideally what I would like to see happen is for some sort of conduit
> > between the DMS SQL DB and Outlook so that the tagging of the
message
> > to the DB will happen from within Outlook. Then somehow the message
> > would get saved from Outlook to the relevant location.
> >
> > I have found a number of apps that do parts of what I have
described
> > but not the whole hog. GFI Mail Archiver writes all incoming and
> > outgoing messages to a SQL DB so thats a start!
> >
> > Right....about 35 hours left to find a solution!
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mark
> >

"Mark Bailey" <mark.e.bai***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> The DMS we are looking at is called AutoTrac Architect. It is system
> designed in the UK for use in an architectural practice. As well as
> the DMS side of things, which is pretty straight forward it also
> handles alot of financial forcasting, projects budgets etc.
> Potentially a very good system if they could just sort the email out.
> They are basically forcing people to move away from a feature rich app
> like Outlook (or even Thunderbird and the myriad of other excellent
> clients out there) for their browser based client which to be honest
> is junk. I feel that even if I can sort my problem out I will have a
> mutiny on my hands before the month is out!
>
> The DMS does not take over the email server role of Exchange. All it
> does is use a POP3 connector to pull the email from the exchange store
> and move it to its own temp dir. When people file the emails (they are
> forced to by the system when they reply, forward or compose - info
> like project name etc) the .eml file then gets moved to the same
> location as the rest of the related project data and the SQL DB is
> updated.
>
> It also sends outgoing email via the exchange SMTP.
>
> Ideally what I would like to see happen is for some sort of conduit
> between the DMS SQL DB and Outlook so that the tagging of the message
> to the DB will happen from within Outlook. Then somehow the message
> would get saved from Outlook to the relevant location.
>
> I have found a number of apps that do parts of what I have described
> but not the whole hog. GFI Mail Archiver writes all incoming and
> outgoing messages to a SQL DB so thats a start!
>
> Right....about 35 hours left to find a solution!
>
> Thanks
> Mark