Re: POP3 application can't delete messages from exchange server

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From: Stefan Engelbert (stefan_at_engelbert.de)
Date: 01/18/05


Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:21:31 +0100

Probably the pop3 connector you are using is not 100% up to RFC Standard.
You might contact the vendor to fix it or use a different connector. I could
even
suggest you a good pop3 sdk so you script it yourself.
Thanks
Frank

"dave" <bryn@nospam.bryn.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hi there,
>
> I am hoping someone can help me with this, I am fairly new to exchange and
> have a problem I can't seem to solve. We have an application which
> connects to our ISP's mail server to download messages, sends them to a
> biztalk application then deletes them off the mail server. This is
> currently working 100 percent but we want to shift it to our exchange 2003
> server and lose the ISP mailboxes.
> The problem is that as soon as we point it to exchange it downloads the
> messages but will not delete them, then next time it poll's the mailbox it
> downloads the same messages again. I can telnet into the exchange server
> and by using the dele command they delete as expected. We had a look at
> the code of this application (the guy who wrote it has left) and all
> appears ok, the dele and quit commands are in the right place and when we
> step through it, it appears to issue them correctly. Does anybody have any
> ideas why our application will not work correctly with exchange server
> while working on our ISP's mail server?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Dave
>



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