Re: Newbie question - email setup??

Dear Rod,

if you are doing a test environment, i advice you to go to third party
software which will allows you to connect to your POP3 Server running on
your local ISP and download all the emails to thier destination recipients,
such third party software are like exchangepop3.com, i personally tested
this application and it is fantastic, and it is not expensive if you want to
by it.

here is the link for this third party application.
http://www.exchangepop3.com/

Note that Exchange 2000 and 2003 does not have this feature , to connect to
pop3 server and downloads the emails to the coresponding mailboxes.

regards

Alaa Al-Ankar

"Rod" <Rod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Paul

What I am doing is setting up a home based test system - trying to learn
exchange 2003 on a Windows 2003 server setup.

I have exchange setup on can send/receive emails internally via Outlook
2003
clients setup on the exchange server. what I want to try and get to is to
also be able to send/receive external emails.

As its a home setup all I have access to is (a) the internet via broadband
and (b) normal hosted email from ISP. I don't have a domain with ISP etc
so
don't think the pointing MX record is an option for me.

Any ideas???

Thanks


"Paul Ford" wrote:

Are you trying to download messages that are stored on a POP3 server at
an
ISP ? If so, I believe that Small Business Server has a POP3 connector to
allow you to do this, I dont think Exchange standard or enterprise does
although I could be wrong.

One question would be why use POP3 with Exchange anyway ? Just have the
ISP
point the MX record to your Exchange server .

Regards

Paul Ford
Edge IT Ltd


"Rod" <Rod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi - and first I apologise for whta I'm sure is an easy question!

I am setting up exchange in a test environment, and want to configure
it
to
be able to send/receive emails, and distribute to test clients (PC Win
XP/Office 2003 based). The email would be hosted via an ISP and is of
type
that you would normally connect to in Outlook via POP3/SMTP.

I can't find anything to explain how I do this!

Is it possible to setup a specific hosted email address - eg.
abc123@xxxxxxxxxxxx and have exchange connect to and distribute this to
the
user?

Can anyone advise a good method to use this kind of setup to test/learn
exchange? Seems I can find loads of material on how to install
exchange,
adminsister etc. - but nothing on actually hooking it up to ISP for
email
etc.

Thanks and hope someone can advise or point in the right direction!!






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