Re: Initial Setup of e-mail

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:32:46 -0500

There's no built-in way to download POP mail into Exchange. POP is a
client/server protocol, not a server/server one.

You would need third party software to download your POP mail, and it is not
recommended practice...it is liable to cause you lots of problems down the
road. Much better to host your own mail & avoid having to use a POP
connector.

See http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_smtp_diatribe.htm

For Exchange 2000, see http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF002.html for
instructions on how to get Exchange to receive Internet mail sent via SMTP,
the way it's meant to do - for Exchange 5.5, see
http://www.exchangeadmin.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=15729

You can do this even with dialup/ISDN (get an ISP who supports ETRN) .

If you have broadband but with a dynamic IP (such as a cable modem/ADSL
account):

You can use a dynamic DNS host such as www.dyndns.org - you set up an
account, such as yourcompany.dnsalias.com, and whomever hosts your public
DNS should set your primary MX record to point to yourcompany.dnsalias.com.
Open up port 25 inbound in your firewall or router, direct all traffic to
your internal IP for the Exchange server.
 You run a service on your server (software available for download from the
dyndns website) and set it up to update dyndns with your current dynamic
IP.
bruce@ wealthkare wrote:
> Our website is already setup for e-mail and hosted by our web firm in
> CA......All we want to do is to pick up those e-mails the same as we
> did before, but thru exchange..
>
> THANKS,
>
> BRUCE
> investorsc@aol.com

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