Re: POP 3 Connector with externally hosted email
- From: "Spencer Colquitt" <SpencerColquitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:06:20 -0700
Dave
Thanks for the reply..... I wont be able to look at now till tomorrow (it's
11pm here in UK) but will look at tomorrow.
Just to confirm (I want to be absolutely sure I haven't misunderstood) - do
I set the smtp address as spencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and as long as I'm not
using global pop3 this will NOT interfere with fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx who is
not located within our internal domain - have I got that right???
I am checking because dell technical specifically told me that this would
cause problems for fred and his colleagues outside our domain (although even
after going through the explanation several times I still didn't understand
why, as I thought that pop3 would ONLY download emails that I set up to do.
As for sending emails to fred, dell also mentioned this as an issue - I will
look into your suggested resolution tomorrow and hopefully will sort.
On a final point - do you know what has happened to all the emails that have
been 'lost' somewhere in the server??? Dell advised these have gone forever,
but I have just read the draft microsoft paper on Using POP 3 Connector and
it suggests it has gone to the admin account - is that right?? If so how do I
get it back (since admin has no 'external' email set up - do I just log on to
my local pc as admin and open outlook????
Thanks again Dave - this is the first time I've used Microsoft discussion
groups and I am grateful and impressed by you taking time out to help....
All the best from the UK
--
Spencer
"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" wrote:
> If you can download the mail directly into Outlook, you should be able to
> use the POP connector successfully. There are two ways to use the POP
> connector - individual POP mailboxes (same as getting the mail directly with
> Outlook), or a global account. With global, all mail addressed to your
> domain goes into a single mailbox, and the POP connector sorts out what
> messages go where. If you were using global, you would not be able to pick
> up the messages as you are with Outlook.
>
> With the other option, the POP connector picks up the messages from specific
> POP mailboxes you set up in the connector. So if you are spencer@xxxxxxx at
> your location, and I'm dave@xxxxxxx at the other location, it doesn't
> matter - you just set your POP connector to pick up your mail from your
> mailbox, leaving my address out of the picture completely.
>
> So the mail domain would be that which is used to address the e-mails,
> regardless of your local domain name (yourdomain.local). And that's what
> you'd use in the CEICW. You'll then set the connector to pick up mail only
> from the POP accounts you're interested in receiving. The connector on your
> site will just ignore the existence of the mailboxes on the other site.
>
> There's only one catch, and that's when you send mail from your location to
> the other location. Your SBS's Exchange Server will think it's responsible
> for that whole domain, it won't recognize the recipients at the other
> location, and you'll get an NDR. Here's how you work around that (method
> 1):
>
> "E-mail to external recipients with the same e-mail domain causes NDR
> messages when using the POP3 Connector"
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300681
>
>
>
>
> "Spencer Colquitt" <SpencerColquitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:8A72374B-6867-45B9-A03E-954D0FA770F0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi
> >
> > Situation: we have just upgraded from peer to peer network to sbs2003. We
> > have a domain name hosted by a 3rd party who also host the email server.
> > Previously we downloaded email straight into each pc's outlook. Here's
> > the
> > important bit: we have a 'sister' company who share the same domain name -
> > they are still running on peer to peer with each pc downloading email
> > straight into outlook.
> >
> > On setting up sbs2003 all has gone quite smoothly but for email. We were
> > only receiving occasional emails - we know that many 'disappeared'. On
> > tracking down the issue and speaking to dell technical support they
> > identified that the issue was setting the smtp addresses to show the email
> > domain name rather than our own, but advised that this is not possible to
> > do
> > whilst users outside our domain are using the same email domain. The
> > resolution put in place is to allow each pc to connect directly with email
> > server and point downloaded emails to the exchange mailbox. This does
> > work
> > reliably (and given the urgency has been a very important 'quick fix') but
> > does not seem ideal. The tech support advised that we should acquire a
> > new
> > domain name just for people within our network and then exchange will
> > function correctly.
> >
> > 2 questions:- a) is this correct? - if not, please advise how I can set up
> > exchange to function correctly with the situation described above and not
> > interfere with other users located outside our local domain who still need
> > access to their email. b) is there any way to recover the 'lost' emails
> > or
> > have they gone forever?
> >
> > Apols for long post - any help much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Spencer
>
>
>
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