sharepoint lists, non-exchange server

[bshbsh]

In my MOSS (2003 AD, SQL Server 2005, MOSS 2007) environment, I don't have Exchange, I use a third party email server. MOSS doesn't have any problem any problems sending out emails using the third party email server, but I haven't been able to set up MOSS so that sharepoint lists can receive emails.

Any advice, links...

 

[furuknap]

Hello,

SharePoint can be a bit quirky when it comes to working with inbound mail on anything but Exchange and IIS. What you want to accomplish is to mimic the IIS way of receiving email which ends up putting the incoming emails in a folder. Then you set up SharePoint to monitor that folder and Bob should be your uncle.

I am using this technique a lot when testing incoming email and email enabling custom lists. Basically I am hand-crafting the email and just copy+paste the email file into the folder. If your third-party server is capable of doing the same thing then you can use it for incoming email to SharePoint.

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