SMTP Feed?

How do I set it up?

[ahmedtheking]

At my office, I'm trying to migrate from using our web server for mail to using an in-house machine. Our webserver at the moment is Windows 2003 and instead of just pointing the MX record to our machine in-house, a friend suggested using an SMTP feed. But how would this work? And how do I set it up?

Would it be easier to just configure the in-house machine to go to the mailserver, pick up the mail via POP3 and then download it off the server and onto itself.

PS the reason why I don't want to just transfer the MX record is because if our internet connection went down (as it did yesterday!) then we'd lose our emails as they'd be bounced, whereas using our web server, it can queue it there for the server to retrieve.

[2004mark]

I was just searching for information regarding SMTP feeds myself, so I'm no expert lol.

The way that I understand it is that a SMTP feed will spool the messages if your server is off-line. Whereas if the MX record points directly to your office server then messages will be bounced if your connection or server is down.

It would also save money if you were on a dial-up or ISDN line (which I'm sure no one is these days) as it only connects when there are messages to download.

I don't think though that there are many advantages of using a SMTP feed over your web server unless you have an exchange server.