Exchange 2003 & POP3 Collection (Win2k3)

Spider · 25 Apr 2006 at 13:19

I'm toying with the idea of setting up an exchange server in work as our current system has had its day and needs replacing with something more powerful. I have set up a test environment to get a grip on exchange, and having set up SMTP to allow users to send email from an exchange server, I now require to set up the collection of email.
Currently all email is delivered through our ISP, which is then collected via POP3 by the current mailserver and distributed to the various users. I want to replicate this behaviour in exchange, but cannot see the obvious way to do it in the latest version of exchange and windows server 2003.

Are there any guides on how to set this up and where to configure POP3 collection in Win2k3/Exchange?

I see there are tools available such as POP3Con & Pop3 connect, but these are only for SBS edition, now the full windows 2003.

Thanks

JonnyT · 25 Apr 2006 at 13:25

Exchange does not support POP3 mailbox collection at all by itself. The version in SBS only works because MS included a POP Connector as part of the bundle of apps. You'll want to look at 3rd party POP connectors such as POP Weasel or POP2Exchange - there's a good list of them here

Spider · 25 Apr 2006 at 13:35

Oh great!
Are there any such free tools available?
icrosoft Exchange Connector for POP3 Mailboxes is a free one but that implies it is only compatible with SBS - is this correct?

Why would they ommit such functionality?!? :confused:

Otacon · 25 Apr 2006 at 14:23

Spider said:
Why would they ommit such functionality?!?

Full blown Exchange is meant to become your primary MX, with Internet Mail being delivered straight to it, negating the need. It was a 90% political decision of course.

csmager · 25 Apr 2006 at 17:05

Otacon said:
Full blown Exchange is meant to become your primary MX, with Internet Mail being delivered straight to it, negating the need. It was a 90% political decision of course.

I suppose MS thought (probably rightly) that if you're using pop3 mailboxes then you probably aren't a very big organisation, so would be more likely to use SBS. SMTP feeds are far more common - and better.

I'm sure whoever hosts your domain would be happy to replace the MX record with your servername, and email would be delivered straight to you... unless you're on dialup, in which case that's probably not wise.