Re: LOST E-mail - POP3 connector

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"Lee Taylor" wrote:

Just annoying when other programs such as workgroup mail and VPop work so
well that our so called 'all in one matured solution' needs third party
additions.!!!

We have setup collect accounts using other software and and NEVER had one
issue.

MS pop3 just dumps emails left right and centre..

How am I supposed to re-sell this product when you have to tell customers,
"well it kinda works, but you would be better buying 'this' as well"




"CO-DBA-SC-EL" wrote:

We are using POP3 Connector quite successfully, but we don't use a "single
account". Our mail hosting service has a bunch of accounts e.g.
bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx, sue@xxxxxxxxxxxx, etc. and the POP3 Connector is set up to
pull one for one from those account mailboxes into Exchange mailbox. This is
in part because not all the mydomain.com users are on the Exchange server --
some are just associates using Internet Email and a convenience mailbox -- ,
and in part because we have some forwarders that are very easy to manage at
the mail hosting service, and we see no need to migrate them. It was also
very easy to do. But the bottom line is that we're not trying to use a
single account and then magically redistribute the messages. This simplifies
life a lot. Now, this is possible because we only have a few dozen addresses
to manage. If we had hundreds we would definitely look for a different
solution. Setting up the POP3 connector each time we need to fix up an
address would become too tedious and brittle. We also use the "catchall" of
the hosting service, which forwards to a "badaddress" mailbox. For
convenience, we don't pull mail from that mailbox via Exchange, because
99.99% of "misaddressed" mail is spam and we use a separate utility to
inspect it and clean it up via POP3 every couple of days.

The disadvantage of using a catchall and the POP3 connector is that we
cannot do bad address bounces in real time (during the SMTP transaction when
a foreign server attempts to deliver a message). Delayed bad address bounces
are a very bad idea, because they are considered noxious "blow-back" that
can get you blacklisted by the likes of spamcop. This is because most of the
badly addressed mail is spam with a forged return address, and sending a NDR
to the innocent owner of the return address is just compounding the
spammer's obnoxiousness. So, we don't send NDRs for misaddress mail, we use
a badaddress mailbox, and scan it regularly. 0.01% of the time we find in
there a critically important message where the sender had mistyped the
recipient's name. The others messages are just discarded.

C_O


<hotsummer55@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1139078982.787931.293250@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
i have had problems with pop3 connector i am looking at 3rd party ones
at the moment .
3rd party ones also send to smtp on server so dont bypass exchanges
sp2 imf that i think microsoft pop3 does.
I cant recommend any yet as have not used them long.
popcon
http://www.christensen-software.com/popcon.htm
and
http://www.quantumsoftware.com.au/ProductsServices/ExchangeConnector.aspx
popcon pro looks good as has extra features not used yet

i have use the other and so far is ok though it seems to still do
domain substitution.
it does send all undistributed email to one email and you can store all
incoming email somewhere to look at and keep email at isp to check
there as well.

has any one else got a fairly cheap one that works well



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