I need help configuring Windows Sharepoint Services version 3 lists to accept incoming emails. I have kept the configuration of the server as simple as possible by placing all applications on the same machine.
OS: Windows Server 2003 w/ SP2 (64 Bit OS on AMD)
SPS: Sharepoint Services version 3
SMTP: Built in IIS smtp server
POP: Built in IIS pop server
I followed all the directions in the SPS 3 manual:
- Configured the application in central admin console to accept emails
- Configured the list in the the sharepoint site to accept emails
- verified that the email address to be used by the list works by seeing the email show up in the POP SERVER inbox.
- Verified that the SPS timer services are started
There is no domain controller and no exchange server. All user accounts are on the local machine.
But everything I've tried has resulted in the emails showing up in the POP box and NOT the sharepoint services list.
Nowhere in the instructions does it explain how SPS is supposed to "intercept" the email from the incoming SMTP server. You can configure it to use an "email drop box" but that doesn't work. It seems as if the email is getting to the POP server before SPS can intercept it. If I don't have the POP mailbox set up on the POP server the email gets rejected by the SMTP server so SPS doesn't have a chance to get it. I seem to be missing how to create the link between the incoming SMTP server and SPS. I can tell SPS where the "drop" directory is for the incoming email but that doesn't seem to be enough (even though that's all the SPS asks for on it's configuration screen).
Thanks for any help or ideas.
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