POP3 mail retrieved through Domino

[lwinstead]

I've got a R5 Domino server serving 45 R5 Notes clients. Each Notes client has a POP3 mail account on our outsourced mail server. So there aren't controlled or housed by us. Anyway, since each Notes client individually pulls their POP3 mail down to their machine, that's a lot of overhead. I'm wondering if there's a way to get the Domino server to pull all POP3 mail down to its mail files and then replicate that out to the clients. (Our Notes mail files are actually stored on the server, but that's besides the point)

Can someone help me with this?

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[AmazingDominik]

Hi,

Why make it so difficult?
Just activate the SMTP listener task and ask your ISP for a mailfeed to your mailserver for your domain.
This puts you in control and now you server handles the e-mail. Message size, mailbox quota and other things are more easy to handle now.

A standard Domino server can not pull POP3 mail. There are third party solutions however that provide this.

I would highly advice against the usage of POP3 in any organization. Your firewall should block this traffic to all user machines. You can not control this traffic and users can set up alternative e-mail clients to receive e-mails on their own.



Kind regards,

Dominik Malfait
dominik@amazingit.com

http://www.amazingit.com

 

[daleflannery]

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I have not tried it, so I can't vouch for it. It is the only solution I know of other than a POP3 redirector like EFS or PullMail.

PullMail

http://www.swsoft.co.uk/index.asp?page=freesoftware

is a separate program to collect POP3 mail from an ISP and send it via SMTP to your Domino server. Also good is EFS from

http://www.chimera.co.nz

I usually recommend EFS for those troglodytes still using a dialup isp.

In both cases you will want your ISP to put mail for all addresses into the one mail box. But once you are doing that I suppose it might even be feasible to have a client pull down all mail and have an agent move it to the server mail.box. Crazy, huh?

But as the truly amazing dominik said above, do you really trust your users with the ability to have a mail account that you have no control over?


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