Re: POP3 connector retrieves only 99 emails at once

HI Geert,

Thanks for letting us know that my suggestion helpful, if you have any
further concerns on this issue, please let me know.

I am glad to be of assistance.


Best regards,

Charles Yang (MSFT)

Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

======================================================
This newsgroup only focuses on SBS technical issues. If you have issues
regarding other Microsoft products, you'd better post in the corresponding
newsgroups so that they can be resolved in an efficient and timely manner.
You can locate the newsgroup here:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx

When opening a new thread via the web interface, we recommend you check the
"Notify me of replies" box to receive e-mail notifications when there are
any updates in your thread. When responding to posts via your newsreader,
please "Reply to Group" so that others may learn and benefit from your
issue.

Microsoft engineers can only focus on one issue per thread. Although we
provide other information for your reference, we recommend you post
different incidents in different threads to keep the thread clean. In doing
so, it will ensure your issues are resolved in a timely manner.

For urgent issues, you may want to contact Microsoft CSS directly. Please
check http://support.microsoft.com for regional support phone numbers.

Any input or comments in this thread are highly appreciated.
======================================================
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


=====================================================
When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so
that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
=====================================================

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

--------------------
| From: "Geert Geerits" <geert.geerits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| References: <#ZRDKpUAGHA.360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<2yH2zMfAGHA.1236@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<O#XI29tAGHA.3140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<R6TeaiDBGHA.1240@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Subject: Re: POP3 connector retrieves only 99 emails at once
| Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:26:01 +0100
| Lines: 279
| Organization: GEERITS NV
| X-Priority: 3
| X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
| X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670
| X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670
| X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original
| Message-ID: <#0j774HBGHA.2568@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
| NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.241.233.115
| Path: TK2MSFTNGXA02.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP08.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl
| Xref: TK2MSFTNGXA02.phx.gbl microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs:231070
| X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
|
| 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
| >
| > Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
| >
| > ======================================================
| > This newsgroup only focuses on SBS technical issues. If you have issues
| > regarding other Microsoft products, you'd better post in the
corresponding
| > newsgroups so that they can be resolved in an efficient and timely
manner.
| > You can locate the newsgroup here:
| > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx
| >
| > When opening a new thread via the web interface, we recommend you check
the
| > "Notify me of replies" box to receive e-mail notifications when there
are
| > any updates in your thread. When responding to posts via your
newsreader,
| > please "Reply to Group" so that others may learn and benefit from your
| > issue.
| >
| > Microsoft engineers can only focus on one issue per thread. Although we
| > provide other information for your reference, we recommend you post
| > different incidents in different threads to keep the thread clean. In
doing
| > so, it will ensure your issues are resolved in a timely manner.
| >
| > For urgent issues, you may want to contact Microsoft CSS directly.
Please
| > check http://support.microsoft.com for regional support phone numbers.
| >
| > Any input or comments in this thread are highly appreciated.
| > ======================================================
| > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
| >
| >
| > =====================================================
| > When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so
| > that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
| > =====================================================
| >
| > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
| >
| > --------------------
| > | From: "Geert Geerits" <ggeerits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > | References: <#ZRDKpUAGHA.360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > <2yH2zMfAGHA.1236@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > | Subject: Re: POP3 connector retrieves only 99 emails at once
| > | Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:56:57 +0100
| > | Lines: 123
| > | X-Priority: 3
| > | X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
| > | X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670
| > | X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670
| > | X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original
| > | Message-ID: <O#XI29tAGHA.3140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > | Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
| > | NNTP-Posting-Host: d54C14046.access.telenet.be 84.193.64.70
| > | Path: TK2MSFTNGXA02.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP08.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl
| > | Xref: TK2MSFTNGXA02.phx.gbl microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs:230813
| > | X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
| > |
| > | 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
| > bericht news:2yH2zMfAGHA.1236@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > | > 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
| > | >
| > | > Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
| > | >
| > | > ======================================================
| > | > This newsgroup only focuses on SBS technical issues. If you have
issues
| > | > regarding other Microsoft products, you'd better post in the
| > corresponding
| > | > newsgroups so that they can be resolved in an efficient and timely
| > manner.
| > | > You can locate the newsgroup here:
| > | > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx
| > | >
| > | > When opening a new thread via the web interface, we recommend you
check
| > the
| > | > "Notify me of replies" box to receive e-mail notifications when
there
| > are
| > | > any updates in your thread. When responding to posts via your
| > newsreader,
| > | > please "Reply to Group" so that others may learn and benefit from
your
| > | > issue.
| > | >
| > | > Microsoft engineers can only focus on one issue per thread.
Although we
| > | > provide other information for your reference, we recommend you post
| > | > different incidents in different threads to keep the thread clean.
In
| > doing
| > | > so, it will ensure your issues are resolved in a timely manner.
| > | >
| > | > For urgent issues, you may want to contact Microsoft CSS directly.
| > Please
| > | > check http://support.microsoft.com for regional support phone
numbers.
| > | >
| > | > Any input or comments in this thread are highly appreciated.
| > | > ======================================================
| > | > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
| > rights.
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > =====================================================
| > | > When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your
newsreader so
| > | > that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
| > | > =====================================================
| > | >
| > | > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
| > rights.
| > | >
| > | > --------------------
| > | > | From: "Geert Geerits" <geert.geerits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > | > | Subject: POP3 connector retrieves only 99 emails at once
| > | > | Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:36:38 +0100
| > | > | Lines: 6
| > | > | Organization: GEERITS NV
| > | > | X-Priority: 3
| > | > | X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
| > | > | X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670
| > | > | X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original
| > | > | X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670
| > | > | Message-ID: <#ZRDKpUAGHA.360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > | > | Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
| > | > | NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.241.233.115
| > | > | Path:
TK2MSFTNGXA02.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP08.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl
| > | > | Xref: TK2MSFTNGXA02.phx.gbl
microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs:230342
| > | > | X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
| > | > |
| > | > | 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
| > | > |
| > | > |
| > | > |
| > | >
| > |
| > |
| > |
| >
|
|
|

.