POP3 settings in Exch07 to Outlook 2003

[robspwing]

HI All,
Thanks in Advance!

We have Exchange 2007 SP1 - I am trying to setup a user to access e-mail using Outlook 2003 and configure his Black Berry to pull e-mails using POP settings.

Right now if I could get the Outlook 2003 to work that would be great.

On the server, I have the POP3 and IMAP4 services started. The user has POP3 and IMAP4 enabled for their Mailbox.
Under Server Config, Client Access, POP3 and IMAP4 tab, POP3 bindings tab shows Port 110 in the top box and Port 995 in the bottom box.
For authentication I have Secure Logon. ( I am not sure if I need to change this option)

Under Server Config, Hub Transport, at the bottom under Receive connectors I have one for Client and Default

For the Client Connector I am not sure under the General Tab if the FQND needs to be the name needs to be mail.domain.local or mail.domain.com(external)

The error that I am receiving on the Outlook 2003 client is it fails to log onto incoming mail server (POP3).
I have the Incoming server (POP3) set to port 995 and Outgoing server SMTP is port 25.

I know that I am missing something easy so any info will help.

Thanks

Rob

Doc, we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88.

 

[ShackDaddy]

Set your outgoing server SMTP port on the client to 587, not 25, and make sure that your firewall will allow the connection. Client sending SMTP connections from the outside don't use port 25, they use 587.

Dave Shackelford
ThirdTier.net

 

[strongm]

>Client sending SMTP connections from the outside don't use port 25, they use 587

Er ... that's not entirely true or accurate

 

[ShackDaddy]

There is normally a default receive connector called "Client" in the "Server\Hub Transport" area. By default it listens on TCP 587. It is intended for POP3 and IMAP clients to use.

So I'll rephrase my earlier comment: IMAP and POP3 clients connecting to an Exchange 2007 server to send outbound mail should use port 587 to connect, not port 25.

Dave Shackelford
ThirdTier.net

 

[robspwing]

I made the following changes earlier today in Exchange 2007:

Set-ImapSettings -LoginType PlainTextLogin
Set-popsettings -LoginType PlainTextLogin


....here is what I have in Outlook 2k3 when setting up the user.

Under More Settings, Advances,

Incoming server 110
and
Outgoing 587
(no check marks for SSL for incoming or outgoing)


when I do Test Account Settings the Send Test e-mail message fails.



I am not sure anymore if this is the right way to go about doing this.


Before I move forward, is there a better way of setting up a remote user to check their e-mail. I have OWA setup but he wants everything to go through his Outlook.

Normally I set up remote users with VPN access and they connect the VPN and then Outlook connects to the server but this user works for another company and has two other e-mail addresses running through Outlook so I did not want to go the VPN route for him.

Rob

Doc, we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88.

 

[ShackDaddy]

Do you have port 587 open on your firewall already and pointed to the Exchange server?

On your Exchange server, when you do a 'netstat -an' and look through the list, do you see that your server is listening on port 587?

Dave Shackelford
ThirdTier.net

 

[robspwing]

Thanks ShackDaddy.

I am new to Exchange but is it a risk when I did the following change?

Set-ImapSettings -LoginType PlainTextLogin
Set-popsettings -LoginType PlainTextLogin


I opened the port on the firewall, and will test

Rob

Doc, we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88.

 

[ShackDaddy]

The only thing at risk is having your traffic intercepted and examined, in which case it will be easy to see what your passwords are.

Hopefully you are following this walkthrough:

http://www.msexchange.org/articles_...ng-pop3-imap4-access-exchange-2007-part1.html

Dave Shackelford
ThirdTier.net