Exchange POP3 not working

[BenyG]

Dear all,

I have an issue with Exchange 2003 SP2 where POP3 is not working. Essentially users cannot connect to it - when telnetting to it the banner is not displayed but it does look like it is waiting for a responce from the client; however as soon as I start to type anything the server breaks the connection.

Nothing is on the logs - apart from the service being successfuly restarted which does not fix the problem. I tried changing around all the POP3 settings, still not luck.

I have ruled out network issues - issue occurs when telnetting to 127.0.0.1 as well.

Understandably there is not a lot of info online re Exchange POP3 as it is not widely used. Does anyone have any inof on what this could be?


Thanks,


Benjamin

 

[58sniper]

Have you run the SCW before you configured POP3?

Is the Windows Firewall enabled on the Exchange box? (I suspect that since you have the problem when going to 127.0.0.1 that this isn't the case)

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[BenyG]

I did not run Security Config Wizard before configuring POP3. This is not a new installtion and was previously working fine.

Windows fw is not enabled.

Benjamin