Re: POP3 Is not working
From: John (John_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/03/04
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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 00:49:04 -0800
Hi Henry:
Ok, I guess I wasn't clear.
I am not running Microsoft exchange. I have installed the SMTP service and
the POP3 service for email. I have controls applications that need access to
SMTP services so that when errors occur, they can send emails. This is
working fine.
The only people that will be collecting emails form the POP3 server are
BEHIND the firewall, so port 110 remains closed to/from the internet.
My problem is that POP3 is not fetching the email from the SMTP server's
drop directory. I can see the email arriving when I send test messages so the
issue has nothing to do with DNS, addressing or port forwarding. If I click
on the *.eml files, the emails are there...its just that POP3 is not picking
them up.
This could have something to do with the fact that I did NOT use the default
SMTP virtual server as I made some mistakes in setting it up and there
appears no way to fix those mistakes. So I have turned that virtual server
off, its stopped, and setup another virtual server using the same drop box as
the default and turned it on. Its working fine, sending and receiving mail.
The POP3 service is configured to pick mail up from the same domain as the
SMTP server's. My direcotry structure is:
C:\>tree Inetpub
Folder PATH listing
Volume serial number is 0006EE50 6031:5FDE
C:\INETPUB
+---AdminScripts
+---mailroot
+---Badmail
+---Drop
+---Drop2
+---Mailbox
¦ +---rtknet.gov.my
¦ +---P3_admin.mbx
+---Pickup
+---Queue
+---Route
+---SortTemp
My drop box for the SMTP server is the drop directory. This is working,
emails can be sent out of the system from any client(outlook express in this
case) behind the firewall, and emails are received and show up in this
direcotry.
POP3's mailbox directory is 'mailbox' with a single mailbox setup under
rtknet.gov.my. I am using local accounts to do this with a single account
'admin' setup. The domain on the SMTP server and the POP3 server is
rtknet.gov.my. Here is the DNS listing:
F:\>nslookup
Default Server: sps-ap-dc-01.ap.trimblecorp.net
Address: 10.3.36.10
> set type=MX
> rtknet.gov.my
Server: sps-ap-dc-01.ap.trimblecorp.net
Address: 10.3.36.10
Non-authoritative answer:
rtknet.gov.my MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.rtknet.gov.my
mail.rtknet.gov.my internet address = 202.75.44.154
>
This looks ok to me and like I have already mentioned, SMTP appears to be
working fine.
I have also setup an alias in the SMTP server for mail.rtknet.gov.my incase
this was causing the problem....it wasn't cause I still have the problem.
POP3 simply does not pick the email up form the drop directory and place it
in admin's mailbox.
How do I trouble shoot this?
How do I fix this?
Cheers,
john
"Henry Craven" wrote:
> Don't understand.
>
> Internally you should be configuring outlook to uses Exchange as the
> Mail Server and provider.
> You should only need the POP3 service running if you have external
> clients using pop clients, in which case you need to open port 110 in
> all firewalls, but I'd recommend you use Outlook Web Access instead.
>
> If your e'Mail is hosted at your ISP as POP3 e'Mail then you don' use
> the POP3 Service, but Configure the POP3 Connector to download the POP3
> mail and route it to the relevant Exchange Mailbox. This is best
> configured by re-running the Connect to the internet wizard, but you can
> do it using the POP3 Connector in the Exchange Management Snapin.
>
> P.S. Configure the Newsreader in Outlook Express to connect to the
> server and newsgroup below rather than use the Web Interface...
>
> --
> Henry Craven. {SBS-MVP}
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> "John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2D03B47B-56B2-43F9-AAAB-66A0B7E5F473@microsoft.com...
> > Hi All:
> >
> > I have an email server behind a NAT firewall and am forwarding port 25
> to
> > the email server. SMTP sends out mail fine and is receiving incoming
> mail as
> > I can see it and view it in the drop directory.
> >
> > POP3 service is running but I cannot get it to receive any mail.
> > My questions are:
> > 1. How does the POP3 service know where the drop directory is of SMTP?
> > 2. How can I troubel shoot this?
> > 3. Is the root mail directory of the POP3 service related in any way
> to the
> > drop directory of the SMTP server?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John
> >
> > PS My IE keeps giving me a "Run Time error, Line:28,
> Error:'mnpMenuTop' is
> > null or not an object" Mozilla does give me the error but I can;'t
> post here
> > using Mozilla.
>
>
>
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