GaryGarland
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New SBS 2008 install, SBS 2003 pop email settings not working
Hi All,
First question to the board! I'm an end user, still managed to configure my new RAID 5 on my existing flakey SBS 2003 system - plopped in new drives, set up sbs 2008 running nicely. my old sbs 2003 email settings just aren't working and i've spent hours trying to figure it out - little to no help from my isp. i'm getting 202 events, which seems to me i'm just not connecting property.
my old sbs 2003 settings were forward all mail to mail server, using mail.optonline.net (which i believe is now the smarthost)
my pop 3 mailboxes in 2003 were user@estateattorney.info (my domain), using estateattorney.ipowerweb.c
i've tried every permutation i can think of. basic authentication. apop. spa. yes ssl. no ssl. i expected issues with the install, but never THESE issues.
previously, my recollection was x400 was disabled (or something like that). obviously i'm not using the best email tools, but what i have available. i did manually change the pop3 service to automatic and made sure it started. any help would be most gratefully appreciated!!!!!!
First question to the board! I'm an end user, still managed to configure my new RAID 5 on my existing flakey SBS 2003 system - plopped in new drives, set up sbs 2008 running nicely. my old sbs 2003 email settings just aren't working and i've spent hours trying to figure it out - little to no help from my isp. i'm getting 202 events, which seems to me i'm just not connecting property.
my old sbs 2003 settings were forward all mail to mail server, using mail.optonline.net (which i believe is now the smarthost)
my pop 3 mailboxes in 2003 were user@estateattorney.info (my domain), using estateattorney.ipowerweb.c
i've tried every permutation i can think of. basic authentication. apop. spa. yes ssl. no ssl. i expected issues with the install, but never THESE issues.
previously, my recollection was x400 was disabled (or something like that). obviously i'm not using the best email tools, but what i have available. i did manually change the pop3 service to automatic and made sure it started. any help would be most gratefully appreciated!!!!!!
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Thanks for the reply. For about the last 5 years or so I've gone with this set up and it has been sufficient - I'm trying to get sbs 2008 to work now like sbs 2003 has with these settings or as must be changed ? These settings worked on 2003 earlier today
I also am not certain what your trying to accomplish or how.
Are you having trouble getting inbound e-mail into your exchange server? or trouble getting your clients able to download their personal mails?
does it work on local accounts in outlook?
Are you having trouble getting inbound e-mail into your exchange server? or trouble getting your clients able to download their personal mails?
does it work on local accounts in outlook?
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Sorry I'll be more clear. Using exchange 2007. Unable to retrieve pop email from my isp - returning errors - don't know why my exchange 2007 won't configure properly or more likely what I'm doing wrong - thanks again
Could you please post some of the event viewer or exchange viewers error logs?
2003 SBS server had a pop connector build in which allowed for retrieving email from provider. On 2007 exchange this is more tricky, as it was not build for that purpose, and generally requires 3rd party apps.
The error logs would help assisting in the matter at hand.
2003 SBS server had a pop connector build in which allowed for retrieving email from provider. On 2007 exchange this is more tricky, as it was not build for that purpose, and generally requires 3rd party apps.
The error logs would help assisting in the matter at hand.
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is it possible you had added a host record, or static forward lookup in your internal DNS server in the old server?
Did the mail provider point their mail records to your public IP address
If yes, are you using a pop collector to harvest the mail from the original pop servers.
mail.optonline.net is your providers smtp address I presume.
However when looking for it online it does not even appear to exist?
Not certain what you are trying to attempt.
Gather pop3 to a mail server in order to supply this to local PC clients
Or already gathering email via MX records or other, and you want to enable pop locally to supply email to clients.
I would have to mention Pop email is a pain. Its messy & insecure. Exhange or IMAP would be better.