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Exchange connecting to POP3 mailbox?
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| Johnny5Alive 2003-05-19, 7:57 am |
| Hi'ya folks...
Little question :
I have installed .NET Server 2003 (very nice BTW) and then Exchange 2000 SP3 on it in a domain environment at home.
I want Exchange to connect (1Mb ADSL always on) to a POP3 mailbox that my ISP has provided. I can get Outlook XP to connect fine and dandy using usual options like SMTP / POP3 mailbox address and username password etc....but how the heck does one get Exchange to connect to the mailbox and download the mail.
I can't find any options on how Exchange picks up mail from external mailboxes?
Help?? Thanks people!!! 
J5 | |
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| to my knowledge i don't think Exchange 2000 Standard, Enterprise provides the option to connect to a POP mailbox. You will have to use a third party software from
http://www.msexchange.org/software/POP3_Downloaders/
However the Exchange 2000 Edition that comes with Small Business Server 2000 comes with a POP connector that allows you to connect to POP mailboxes and download mail to ur individual mailbox. | |
| Johnny5Alive 2003-05-19, 9:02 am |
| Thanks Lennee.
Hmmm, what I figured. How slack of Exchange!! Do you think it's possible to use the POP3 mailbox configs to FORWARD the mail to me then?? Maybe then I don't need a POP3 Downloader? (They cost money).
i.e. - I set up a POP3 Server on my exchange server (or POP3 virtual server?). Then I set up a forwarding rule on my ISP's POP3 mailbox to forward mail to pop3.mydomain.com. If that's the case then... why do people buy POP3 downloaders for Exchange? Some cost hundreds of $$$!!
Have I missed some important thing here?
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| lenee 2003-05-19, 10:45 am |
| Well my friend in terms of receiving mail, since you have configured your ISP to forward to pop3.yourdomain.com you will need to configure your Exchange server to listen for mail with that address space(yourdomain.com). That can be done using the recipient policy adn if you have a SMTP relay server setup configure it to forward mail for that domain to your Exchange Server. Exchange will check active directory if anyone has an email address with that address space if not a NDR report will be generated.
I'm a little confused on how you're going to get the SMTP packets to reach your Exchange Server with your ADSL router. I have not worked with an ADSL router before so all i can say is that you will somehow need to configure the SMTP packets to be forwarded through your ADSL router over to the Exchange Server( port forwarding or anything).
Also to my knowledge i think ADSL is dynamically assigned by the ISP. In that case its a slightly different ball game and i think you might have to do some research on it. However if you have a static ip address on the Exchange server/router(to which you will configure port forwarding) you will have to configure MX records on the ISP DNS server. Most likely you will have to call their support desk and ask them to add yoru mailserver pop3.yourdomain.com ---> ip address mapping.
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