POP3 Connector error

[fdoty]

I have a SBS Server and would like to use the POP3 connector to download certain mailboxes to the local Exchange Server. When I enable the POP3 Connector for a any user the event log shows it is successful and delivered although the email never shows up. The sender of that email gets the following:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

mspop3connector.fdoty@domain.com

with the following attached:

Reporting-MTA: dns;mail.domain.com
Received-From-MTA: dns;domain.com
Arrival-Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:09:18 -0500

Final-Recipient: rfc822;mspop3connector.fdoty@domain.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1

And they also get the original email attached.

Am I missing something here? I have setup this up before with other clients and they are humming right along.

Thanks for your help.

 

[piyu75]

do you have port forwarded for POP3 mails? I believe its 110(Search Google You will find it). check your firewall settings.

 

[fdoty]

The firewall is letting out port 110 and in as well. If it was blocked I would get a pop3 connector error saying it could not connect to the mail server. I get an "everything ok" in the event log but the emails bounce once the POP3 connector tries to download the emails.

 

[TechSoEasyMVP]

Did you try to create separate email addresses for people? ie, why does the address include "mspop3connector" as part of the email address?

Jeff
TechSoEasy

 

[fdoty]

Sounds crazy huh.

I have no idea where that came from?
I send an email to fdoty@domain.com and it sits on a Linux POP3 Server. I can see it there by checking the webmail interface.

The POP3 Connector then connects from the Exchange server and the logs tell me everything is OK.

The original sender then gets the bounceback listed above with the original email attached and the error listed above

 

[TechSoEasyMVP]

No it doesn't sound too crazy... I had forgotten about this issue since I hadn't seen it in quite some time. Please follow the "Troubleshoot the CDO transfer process" section of this KB Article to resolve your problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885685

Jeff
TechSoEasy

 

[fdoty]

Thanks. I'm going to go through the doc. It shows there should be errors in the event log although I don't see any there. I'll get back soon with my findings.

 

[fdoty]

Ok! Thanks Jeff. That worked perfectly. I actually just had to run the VBS script.

Yea!

 

[TechSoEasyMVP]

Terrific!

Glad it was easy!

Jeff
TechSoEasy