Split email between Office 365 and a pop mail server

[livpie]

I have a couple customers who would like to move some of their email addresses to Office 365 while keeping the rest of their email addresses hosted via their pop account. I have looked into it and it appears as though you can do it, but I am not quite sure how.

One option is to forward to Office365 from the current provider while keeping MX records the same. This is not the option I want.

I believe the option I am looking for would be to change the MX records over to Office 365 and then setting up an outbound connector for those mailboxes that are not hosted on O365. This is where I am getting stuck.

Can anyone tell me how to set up the outbound connector to make it work this way? or if that is even possible?

I appreciate any help you can provide.

 

[deachus]

I tried this and was informed by GoDaddy that it was not possible to have O365 and pop accounts on the same domain.

I had to use my same domain but ending in .net for the O365 accounts and keep the existing pop accounts on the existing .com domain. I then forwarded the pop accounts for the employees who went to O365 to their new O365 .net email address.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Rackspace lets you have email or exchange mailboxes on a per mailbox basis. That will get you the email and then you can just buy copies of Office 2013 to get the office products. Or I suppose you could get the Office 365 small business versions that don't have exchange email if you really want that Office subscription.

 

[deachus]

I'm not even talking about office products. I'm talking about Exchange and POP on the same domain.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Good then rackspace will do what you need. OFFICE 365 is not just exchange. It is also a yearly subscription to office.

 

[deachus]

I am aware. You still can't have pop and exchange on the same domain which is the way I interpret the OP problem.

 

[nlinecomputers]

So the clients I am doing this are imagining this?

 

[deachus]

The 3 hosting companies including GoDaddy. Have informed me you can't do this. You have pop and exchange accounts on the same domain with rackspace?

 

[nlinecomputers]

http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/webmail-exchange-hybrid/

 

[TenYardFight]

We do this on rackspace and on intermedia.

 

[pceinc]

We do split domain routing with Appriver for a few clients. It's a pain to manage. When a new user is created on the exchange side we have to create a forwarding contact on the pop side so the exchange users will get email from the pop users. Since this is using Appriver exchange it's not as cheap as O365.

I would recommend to the client that it's in their best interest to go all or none. You really don't save much money unless you are talking about a ton of accounts. O365 email only can be had for $5 per mailbox. Now if you are talking about having some users with a higher plan that includes office and some users on email only, you can do that with O365. We do this via Appriver as well. You can have users on exchange only and then have some E plan users.