RE: is there a windows or exchange equivalent of fetchmail?
- From: v-natliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ("Nathan Liu [MSFT]")
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:28:05 GMT
Hello Oskar,
Thank you for posting in the SBS newsgroup.
Also, many thanks for MDBJ's great input.
According to your description, I understand that you would like to setup a
sbs2003 that has to get email on a regular basis (every 5 minutes) from an
SBC email account and put it on a local exchange mailbox. If I have
misunderstood the problem, please don't hesitate to let me know.
POP3 Connector:
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MDBJ is right on target. In SBS Server, we can use the POP3 Connector to
retrieve incoming email from ISP POP3 mailboxes. It supports the Individual
and Global POP3 mailboxes:
Individual POP3 Mailboxes - An individual mailbox is where e-mail for an
individual user account is stored in a single mailbox (e.g.,
amy@xxxxxxxxxxx). This mail is then delivered to a defined user on the
Exchange server.
Global POP3 Mailboxes ¨C A global mailbox is where e-mail for an entire
domain is stored in a single mailbox (e.g., all e-mail addressed to
@contoso.com is stored in a single account). When this mail is delivered to
the Exchange server, the user name defined to the left of the @ symbol must
match a defined Exchange user.
To configure it, open the Server Management console on the SBS Server, go
to Advanced Management -> POP3 Connector Manager, click Open POP3 Connector
Manager, click Mailboxes tab, click Add, input appropriate POP3 mailboxes
settings. Click Scheduling tab, you can define the schedule.
Note: The shortest time frame allowable for scheduling is 15 minutes for a
schedulable connection. Actually 15 minutes is the best schedule that we
have calculated out from thousands of tests. For more information, refer to
the following KB article which also applies to SBS 2003:
291995 ICW Does Not Prevent You from Entering Invalid Values for the POP3
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=291995
Let''s consider a scenario that you configure your POP3 Connector to
retrieve emails every 5 minutes. Sometimes you may receive emails with big
attachments. If the network connection is not that fast, POP3 Connector may
still try to pull the big emails while another schedule begins. This will
cause big performance issue to the server and the POP3 Connector cannot
download the emails successfully.
If you do want to lower the schedule, you can try a workaround at your own
risk. You can try to schedule a restart for the POP3 Connector service or
manually run the msbokick.exe file (under %sbsprogramdir%\Networking\).
When each time the POP3 Connector service (Microsoft Connector for POP3
Mailboxes service) starts, it will try downloading emails from the POP3
source. However you should take your own risk as the restart of the service
so frequently may cause unexpected issues.
More information:
885685 How to troubleshoot the POP3 Connector in Windows Small Business
Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=885685
264249 Exchange Server Connector for POP3 Mailboxes deliver multiple copies
of messages
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=264249
IMAP:
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Unfortunately, we cannot configure the Exchange Server to download mail
from an IMAP Server, this feature does not exist in the current version of
Exchange Server. However, we can use the Outlook Express or Outlook to
directly retrieve email from the IMAP Server.
I understand that this limitations may inconvenience our users and we
apologize for the inconvenience you faced. In our efforts to continue to
improve our products, you are welcome to add your suggestions to make
Microsoft products easier and more powerful to use, by writing in:
mailto:mswish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Additionally, based on my research, there are some of the 3rd party pop
connectors can collect mail from IMAP servers and deliver it to Exchange
mailboxes. See http://www.slipstick.com/exs/popconnect.htm for a list. Only
'POPBeamer' and 'eXchange POP3' are identified as supporting IMAP, but I'm
pretty sure a few others do.
NOTE: This response contains a reference to a third party World Wide Web
site. Microsoft is providing this information as a convenience to you.
Microsoft does not control these sites and has not tested any software or
information found on these sites; therefore, Microsoft cannot make any
representations regarding the quality, safety, or suitability of any
software or information found there. There are inherent dangers in the use
of any software found on the Internet, and Microsoft cautions you to make
sure that you completely understand the risk before retrieving any software
from the Internet.
I appreciate your time and cooperation. If anything is unclear, please feel
free to let me know. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
Nathan Liu (MSFT)
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>hello,
>I'm not that familiar with exchange so please forgive my ignorance in
>this regard.
>I usually work on unix/linux systems. Those types of email servers have
>a utility called fetchmail. You can configure this to run as a service
>and it fetches mail from remote servers (pop3 or imap) and delivers that
>mail to one or more local accounts.
>
>I've looked around on search engines but I don't see anything like this
>for windows exchange servers.
>
>I have to setup a sbs2003 that has to get email on a regular basis
>(every 5 minutes) from an SBC email account and put it on a local
>exchange mailbox.
>
>Any links, hints very appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Oskar
>
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