using exchange to store email from my isp

[milfordboy]

Hi, I have 5 users on my network which read email from 12 or so email addresses from my isp.

Can exchange be used to check the email addresses which my isp have for me and forward the mail to the relevant user on my server?

I have little knowledge of exchange but I understand I need to use the pop 3 connector?

I have set the domain of sbs to mycompany.local and my mail server assigned by my isp is mail.mycompany.co.uk
Can anyone give me some advice to send me in the right direcion ot know of any tutorials to help me with this?

 

[58sniper]

You would need to have a third party POP3 connector. The better solution would be to have mail delivered directly to the server instead of having it stored on your ISP's server.

The local domain name is irrelevant to the email domain name, and has no bearing on email.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Want to know how email works? Read for yourself -

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt

 

[milfordboy]

Pat,

Can you recommend a third party pop 3 connector?

Otherwise the best option would be to set my domain on my SBS server as mydomain.com?

So what steps do I have to take after that? Set the server to have a public IP and register the domain name?

Many Thanks before hand....

 

[twwabw]

No need for a 3rd party POP connector- this is exactly what the SBS POP connector does. It retrieves messages from a POP server, and redirects them to an exchange mailbox. In server management, go to Mail, open pop connector. You add your accounts there. To many people, this is one of the biggest features of SBS- they prefer the pop connector vs setting up a full blown exchange server. Gives you the advantages of a centralized information store and Outlook functionality without some of the headaches associated with a full exchange deployment. The default minimum retrieve interval is 15 min., but this can be modified in the registry.

 

[pagy]

I advise against using the built in POP3 connector, it's not very good in my opinion and I've had problems with it in the past.

Look at;

http://www.chimera.co.nz

for a really good POP3 connector.

Paul

MCSE 2003

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein

 

[twwabw]

I advise against using the built in POP3 connector, it's not very good in my opinion and I've had problems with it in the past. "

What kind of problems? I have colleagues who use it almost exclusively on their client's networks and have never had issues. I have only 2 sites that use it, again with no problems. On others they are all large enough to warrant full Exchange.

 

[milfordboy]

So then I need to learn how to configure outlook to read from exchange!

Is that straight forward?

 

[twwabw]

First of all you need to configure exchange on your SBS server. Have you done that yet? There is a wizard to set it up

 

[milfordboy]

Yep, I have gone through the wizard to set up exchange and that completed succesfully.....

 

[twwabw]

In server management, go to mail, and configure pop connector.

 

[milfordboy]

I can only find a POP 3 connector under Exchange System Manager - is that it?

Thanks for your help twwabw....

 

[twwabw]

Yes- that's the one. If you have the Wizard fetish, you can go to(which brings you to the same place anyway) Administrative tools > Server Management > Internet & Email > Manage POP3 e-mail >Open POP3 connector manager.

 

[milfordboy]

I'll give that a go twwabw. I'm sure I'll be coming back to you with other issues. Thanks again for all your help.

Can an Global Email Address book be set uo in the Exchange System Manager? As I'm looking to set this up too. I guess then if users want there own private address book they can be held in exchange too? or is this on the local workstation?

 

[twwabw]

You can set up a Public Folder contact list, that everyone can access. Everyone already has a default private contact folder in their exchange mailbox. This is your "address" book. Time to think Outlook / Exchange, not Outlook Express .

 

[milfordboy]

I have some problems - I have set up the pop 3 connector succesfully, and got outlook to read from exchange. But when I send mail from outlook, I can see it in exchange system manager - but it doesn't get to its destination.

If I look at the queues in Exchange System Manager, I can see a list of domains to which I'm seeing mail - using the SMTP protocol and the source being Default SMTP Virtual Server. The state shows as retry.

Under additional queue information it shows SMTP could not connect to any DNS server.

Ia there somewhere in here where I need to put my ISP's SMTP server details?

Help!!!!

 

[ShackDaddy]

It's quite possible that your ISP is blocking outbound port 25 traffic, which is what your server needs to create when it sends mail out. You'll usually just need to contact them to lift the block or use whatever web management tool they provide you with to unblock it yourself.

Rather than worrying about port 25, routing your outbound mail through your ISP's SMTP server is probably the best idea for now. In the SMTP Virtual Server properties, under Delivery -> Advanced, there's a field for you to provide a smart-host. That's where you can specify your ISP's SMTP server name. You may also need to configure Outbound Security to authenticate with your ISP. If that's the case, then you should be able to use any of your accounts' user name and password for that purpose.

Your SBS server should be pointing to itself for DNS, but you should have your ISP's DNS servers configured in the DNS Forwarders tab so that you can do name resolution. Normally you don't even have to use forwarders, since there's usually a root hints file on your system that allows your server to fully query the DNS tree, but sometime's it goes missing for whatever reasons.



ShackDaddy
Shackelford Consulting

 

[unashamed]

Thanks for the valuable thread guys.
twwabw, might you be able to point me to this registry key. I need to change frequency of the pop3 connector to lower than the default 15 minutes.

 

[twwabw]

Taken from another site: Note, use with caution!

Add a ScheduleAccelerator (DWORD) entry to

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SmallBusine ssServer\Network\POP3
Connector"

To determine the actual polling interval: Divide the POP3 Scheduling
interval (the value you have configured in the POP3-Connector
GUI'sScheduling tab) by the value you set for the ScheduleAccelerator reg
entry. For example, if you specify a 15-minute interval in the
POP3-Connector GUI, and you set the ScheduleAccelerator value to 3, the POP3
Connector will poll every 5 minutes (15 divided by 3). If you set it to 5,
the POP3 Connector
will poll every 3 minutes.

This is unsupported by Microsoft and it is said that it should only be used
in a testing environment.

I used it and removed it after a couple of days as it was causing numerous
errors with exchange. Some people use it and say it has worked for years
with no problems.