POP3 and Exchange 2007

Prophet

Prophet

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I'm installing a new server later today. All is well besides the POP3 side of things. The client has to use POP3 as it's the only method their rubbish ISP suport for incomming email.

Could someone in the know tell me what I need to do besides enable the POP3 services? Not sure where the username/password etc beling.

Thanks :)
 
My info may be a little out of date, but I'm pretty sure only SBS has a POP3 connector. All stand alone versions of Exchange I've come across have POP3, but that's for between Exchange and clients, rather than incoming to Exchange. They added the POP3 connector into SBS as a bit of an afterthought for users that can't use SMTP.

I would whois the domain to find who has control of the DNS and set the MX. The POP3 connector was so bad in SBS 2003 it was known for a nasty bug. It'd download an email from a mailing list, add it to Exchange and resend it to everyone on the list again, then redownload it, etc, creating a never ending mail loop.

There's a 3rd part util that will download via POP3 and then forward the email to Exchange via SMTP, but it's not free and creates all sorts of other problems (the downloaded emails may be detected by your AV and deleted before being sent to Exchange).
 
As Toughnoodle said, i don't think Server Std with Exchange supports downloading of mail via POP3, what you'll be seeing is the POP3 service which allows clients to hook into exchange via POP3 to download their mail.

I can't check for certain as i don't have any servers out there matching your build, all our 2008 servers are SBS :(
 
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