I'm trying to find resources about setting up an internal exchange 2010 server in my office that retrieve all emails from a service provider and then segregate the emails to respective users in the office. The reason for maintaining an email service provider is because we do not have a reliable internet line and therefore i still want to depend on the service provider. Then the reason for exchange server is to archive the company's email and eliminate the need to keep big pst files on each PC. Does anyone here knows how to setup such infrastructure like this? Hope you understand what i'm trying to achieve. Thanks

You cannot make Exchange 2010 do ETRN or similar. What you can do is talk to a SMTP provider, there are plenty of them out there and perhaps your Internet Service Provider can do this as well. They must configure there system to deliver your mail to a specific name or IP. You must also make sure that you get the same IP every time your connection to Internet get connected. Mail flow will then be, someone on internet send you an email. It will go to your provider since they have MX pointed to them. If you are connected to Intenet, mail will be delivered immediately. If you have no connection to Internet, mail will be queued at your provider until you get online. lasse at humandata dot se, http://anewmessagehasarrived.blogspot.com

Thanks Lasse, Appreciate your response on my question. Is there any further information on the internet in regards to this type of Exchange configuration? Thanks i Advance.

You dont need to configure Exchange any different than you would if you had a "always up connection" to internet. This is more of network thing that you have to configure together with your ISPlasse at humandata dot se, http://anewmessagehasarrived.blogspot.com

Thanks Lasse. Appreciate it.