Re: POP3 connector retrieves only 99 emails at once

Hi Charles,
Thanks for all you help.
Geert Geerits

""Charles Yang [MSFT]"" <v-chayan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht news:R6TeaiDBGHA.1240@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> HI Geert,
>
> Thanks for letting us know that my solution works well for you.
>
> It seems you encountered spam issue on the POP3 email from ISP. As I know,
> on SBS 2003 we have no such filter or software can be used to block POP3
> spam emails from ISP, you have to use some third party tools to achieve
> this goal.
>
> However, if you want to use SMTP and MX record on ISP to send and receive
> your internet emails, I would like to give you some suggestion, you can
> have a look at it:
>
> If you use Exchange to receive internet emails, please refer to my
> suggestions below:
>
> Please check Exchange filtering rules to block email from certain spam
> email domain:
>
> 1. Please check SMTP virtual server, right click it to choose
> properties.
> 2. In the access tab, make sure that there are no relay restrictions
> for special user.
> 3. Please also check the properties of Message Deliver, make sure
> that there are filtering rules in send filtering section and connection
> filtering. ( You can check the message deliver properties by Opening
> Exchange System Management->Global setting->Message deliver.)
> 4. If you have installed IMF on your SBS 2003, please also make sure
> that you have set any restriction on IMF, you can refer to the following KB
> article for more detailed steps to check IMF setting:
>
> Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter Deployment Guide
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/library/imfdeploy
> mspx
>
> If you installed ISA on your SBS 2003, I suggest you check if you have set
> some restrictions on ISA SMTP filtering rules:
>
> SMTP filtering functions
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/isa/2000/enterprise/proddoc
> s/en-us/isadocs/cmt_smtpfilter.mspx
>
>
> For the POP3 error, it more relate to POP3 transportation issue, it is not
> relate to SBS itself, you can set the POP3 logging level to none to ignore
> these.
>
>
> More info:
> ==============
>
> Antispam Capabilities in Exchange Server 2003
> http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/security/antispam.asp
>
> Exchange Server 2003 Security Hardening Guide
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6A80711F-E5C9-4AEF-
> 9A44-504DB09B9065&displaylang=en
>
> Hope the above information helpful; please feel free to let me know if you
> still have any further concerns on this issue. I am glad to be of further
> assistance.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles Yang (MSFT)
>
> Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support
>
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> | From: "Geert Geerits" <ggeerits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | References: <#ZRDKpUAGHA.360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> | Subject: Re: POP3 connector retrieves only 99 emails at once
> | Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:56:57 +0100
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> | Hi Charles,
> | Thanks for your answer.
> | I changed the limit of MessagesPerSession to 500 and this did the trick.
> | Now I can retrieve all the emails.
> | For the future, I'm planning to retrieve emails with SMTP and a MX record.
> | We receive between 2000 and 15000 returned spam mails a day (spammers
> using our DN as return adress).
> | The event log is full of POP3 Connector errors like 1023, 1019, 1035,
> 1053, 1056, 1036 and 1029.
> | Thanks,
> | Geert Geerits
> |
> | ""Charles Yang [MSFT]"" <v-chayan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in
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> | > HI Geert,
> | >
> | > Welcome to SBS newsgroup.
> | >
> | > Issue description:
> | > ==============
> | >
> | > I understand that your POP3 connectors only retrieves 99 emails once.
> | >
> | > Analyzing and suggestion:
> | > ===============
> | >
> | > It should be a stranger issue, in order to isolate the issue, please
> helps
> | > gather more information:
> | >
> | > 1. If you set the retrieving interval from 15 min to 30 min, does the
> issue
> | > still exists or not?
> | > 2. Does it occur on every ISP or not? You could try to set some other
> POP3
> | > mailbox such as yahoo for testing to see if you can reproduce the issue.
> | > 3. Can you reproduce it every time you use POP3 connectors?
> | >
> | > If you means the POP3 session, you can refer to the following section
> for
> | > more information, we did have a limit of 100. you can change the
> registry
> | > to a high number, if you want to change it.
> | >
> | > Generally speaking, if the POP3 connector connected to a mailbox that
> | > contained a very large amount of mail, and that session was interrupted
> | > before all of the mail could be retrieved, the mail on the remote server
> | > would never be deleted. This meant that the next time the POP3
> Connector
> | > connected to that remote mailbox, it would download all of the mail
> again.
> | > To prevent this, a registry key has been created to limit the number of
> | > messages downloaded per session called
> | >
> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SmallBusinessServer\Network\Pop3Connector\MessagesPe
> | > rSession. This value can be changed if needed. By default the number
> is
> | > set to 100.
> | >
> | > Hope the above information helpful to your issue, please feel free to
> post
> | > back the results. I am glad to be of assistance.
> | >
> | >
> | >
> | > Best regards,
> | >
> | > Charles Yang (MSFT)
> | >
> | > Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support
> | >
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> | > --------------------
> | > | From: "Geert Geerits" <geert.geerits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | > | Subject: POP3 connector retrieves only 99 emails at once
> | > | Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:36:38 +0100
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> | > | The SBS 2003 POP3 connector retrieves only 99 e-mails at once (every
> 15
> | > minutes).
> | > | Is there a setting where I can change this to retrieve more e-mails at
> | > once.
> | > | Thanks in advance.
> | > | Geert Geerits
> | > |
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