Re: POP3 Is not working

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:30:05 -0500

John wrote:
> Hi Henry:
>
> Ok, I guess I wasn't clear.

No, not really :) But you're not posting in the best group....this one is
for MS Small Business Server, hence the Exchange assumptions. Might want to
post in a Win2003 group.
>
> 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}
>> =====================================
>> For the fastest response Post to the appropriate News
>> Group with as much detail of the Problem Space, Error
>> Message and Environment as possible:
>>
>> News Server : news.microsoft.com
>> SBS 4/4.5 : microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz
>> SBS 2000 : microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000
>> SBS 2003 : microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
>> =====================================
>>
>> "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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