Re: POP3 Headaches

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From: Brennon Bortz (BrennonBortz_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:25:04 -0800

The users never come into the office to work on the LAN. They also have
other Exchange accounts setup within Outlook and I don't want to force them
to go through the hassle of setting up and using different profiles. OWA, as
robust as it has become, is not Outlook. The fact remains that it's not
working. Can you give me some suggestions?

Thanks,
Brennon

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

> Brennon Bortz wrote:
> > Sorry...this is a cross-post...
>
> Nope. A crosspost is when you post a single message to a bunch of different
> groups at once (separating the group names with commas or whatever your news
> client uses). If you multipost (posting the identical message to a bunch of
> different groups as individual messages) you will make many people in
> various groups extremely cranky, as it really ends up looking like you're
> asking a bunch of different people to duplicate the efforts of others. :)
> >
> > Trying to sort through the mess of getting an SBS 2003 box running
> > smoothly. Thankfully, Microsoft sent plenty of documentation to help
> > me through the process--especially for the bundled programs! Right...
> >
> > Well, I'm trying to get Exchange running smoothly. I have several
> > users that must access their accounts directly and others that must
> > access through POP3. I have everyone accessing directly up and
> > running smoothly. However, getting the POP3 and SMTP servers running
> > has been a royal pain in my neck from Day 1. I went back to square
> > one, and have the Default POP3 Virtual Server set up with these
> > properties:
> >
> > -General
> > -IP address: (All Unassigned)
> > -Advanced: (Default settings)
> > -Limit number of connections to: (Unchecked)
> > -Connection time-out (minutes): (10)
> > -Access
> > -Authentication
> > -Basic auth. (password is sent in clear text) (Checked)
> > -Requires SSL/TLS encryption (Unchecked)
> > -SASL (Checked)
> > -Certificate (Not configured)
> > -Connection Control
> > -All except list selected with and empty list
> > -Message Format (N/A)
> > -Calendaring (N/A)
> >
> > The Microsoft Exchange POP3 service is started (automatic). I know
> > users are getting a response from the server when they try to
> > initiate a POP3 session. When I stop the POP3 service, they get no
> > response / timeout errors. When the POP3 service is started, every
> > attempt to initiate a session results in unknown user or bad password
> > errors. Every user has everything enabled under Exchange Features in
> > their profile(s) (including POP3). The settings on each client
> > machine (using Outlook for testing purposes) are:
> >
> > -User Name / Password:
> > -I have tried this a million ways: DOMAIN/USER, DOMAIN.local/USER,
> > USER@DOMAIN, USER@DOMAIN.COM, USER@DOMAIN.local...you name it, I've
> > tried it. -Log on using Secure Password Authentication (Tried both
> > ways...unchecked now.)
>
> Did you try DOMAIN\user? Backslash, not forward slash...
>
> > -More Settings
> > -Advanced
> > -Using all default pors, etc.
> >
> > Can someone please help? This is driving me nuts!! Thank you in
> > advance.
>
> Gotta ask why you need these users to access their mail via POP in the first
> place. Do they never come into the office/work on the LAN? Do you care that
> their data will probably never be maintained/resident on the Exchange
> server, for backups, admin, legal reasons, etc? I almost never open up POP
> access - external users use OWA, etc - or, if they have their own external
> e-mail accounts, I'll set up forwarding from their mailboxes to a mail
> enabled contact.
>
>
>

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