Re: POP3 Is not working

From: Henry Craven (IUnknown_at_Dot.Nyet)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 22:51:39 +1100

Sorry John;. you're -way....- beyond my experience with this.

I can only suggest that you pay the man and call PSS. If they can't make
it work for you no-one can, and that's cheap at twice the price.... 

-- 
Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
    Melbourne Australia
( *PSS = Microsoft Product Support Services )
"John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:56583D8F-21C9-4A23-89EB-FFBAA230E226@microsoft.com...
> 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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