Best way to replace Frog email server - small scale only

[apearson]

Apologies if this is posted in the wrong forum. I looked at the categories and this one seemed the most appropriate. Please move if necessary.

 

We moved to Office 365 a while ago, using a new email domain. Our old domain is still in use on our Frog server, which is due to be turned off soon. We can still send and receive emails using our old domain on Frog, although by now, most users get nothing important on it. Office 365 is now used for our email. I have just been told, that for the foreseeable future, we need to be able to continue sending/receiving email on our old domain for a small number of important users. Our Frog hardware warranty has expired and we won't be renewing our Frog support contract when it expires soon. We host the Frog server onsite and been told it will continue to function, but we will have no support if it goes wrong. Understandable. While I could just leave things as they are, I feel rather nervous having no support at all on the frog platform. It's not windows based and I have no knowledge to fix it if there was a problem.

 

I'm thinking I have 2 options (apart from leaving things as they are and hoping nothing goes wrong) - transfer our email domain to a third party email hosting company (eg. Rackspace) or host an email server ourselves on a Windows server. My instinct is to use a third party company to host our old email domain. Any suggestions welcome. Hosting it ourselves may be cheaper, but I have no experience of hosting/supporting an email server hosted locally.

 

Any advice/suggestions most welcome.

[FN-GM]

Why not add your old domain to Office 365 and add secondary addresses to your mailboxes? That way the import users receive emails from old and new addresses in 1 inbox. Will save both time and money and would be a better user experience.

[apearson]

Sounds like a great idea! Thanks. I hadn't realised you could do that. Will look in to how's that done on Monday.

[ellsandell]

Why not add your old domain to Office 365 and add secondary addresses to your mailboxes? That way the import users receive emails from old and new addresses in 1 inbox. Will save both time and money and would be a better user experience.

 

I agree this would be your best approach.