Receiving mail in IIS 5.1?

AFAICS you cannot receive mail in iis in win xp pro, as it supports
smtp delivery but not pop3 or imap etc. However in the 'mail root'
directory, there is a 'mailbox' folder, suggesting you can after all.
When I try and collect mail to my domain name, the server receives it
and then sends it out again (to the secondary mx where it queues until
I finger and the process repeats itself)

So the question is: can I receive mail? and if so how?

Many Thanks.

Jonathan
Wed Mar 03 19:08:09 CST 2004

Hi,

No, you cannot using the built-in tools (as you said, SMTP is only to send
email, not receive it, you would need a POP or IMAP server to receive). I
am sure in this case "mailbox" has another meaning

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"A Chap" <blackhole@abuse.plus.com> wrote in message
news:pbjc40lh2mht7l34a7eqm88gaiigtdl2hi@4ax.com...
> AFAICS you cannot receive mail in iis in win xp pro, as it supports
> smtp delivery but not pop3 or imap etc. However in the 'mail root'
> directory, there is a 'mailbox' folder, suggesting you can after all.
> When I try and collect mail to my domain name, the server receives it
> and then sends it out again (to the secondary mx where it queues until
> I finger and the process repeats itself)
>
> So the question is: can I receive mail? and if so how?
>
> Many Thanks.

Kristofer
Thu Mar 04 03:39:36 CST 2004

Hello,

An SMTP server both receives and sends emails. And since the SMTP server in
Windows XP is..hmm...an SMTP server, it can very well receive emails.

The problem, will however be that all emails is dropped in a folder. This is
where the POP3 server take place. It checks the folder, and moves the emails
to the correct mailbox. Later, when the client wants to read his/her emails,
he/she connects to the POP3 server, and download the emails.

I draw a picture, you can find it here:

http://www.ilopia.com/temp/smtp.jpg

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"A Chap" <blackhole@abuse.plus.com> wrote in message
news:pbjc40lh2mht7l34a7eqm88gaiigtdl2hi@4ax.com...
> AFAICS you cannot receive mail in iis in win xp pro, as it supports
> smtp delivery but not pop3 or imap etc. However in the 'mail root'
> directory, there is a 'mailbox' folder, suggesting you can after all.
> When I try and collect mail to my domain name, the server receives it
> and then sends it out again (to the secondary mx where it queues until
> I finger and the process repeats itself)
>
> So the question is: can I receive mail? and if so how?
>
> Many Thanks.

Tom
Thu Mar 04 07:29:48 CST 2004

"A Chap" <blackhole@abuse.plus.com> wrote in message
news:pbjc40lh2mht7l34a7eqm88gaiigtdl2hi@4ax.com...
> AFAICS you cannot receive mail in iis in win xp pro, as it supports
> smtp delivery but not pop3 or imap etc. However in the 'mail root'
> directory, there is a 'mailbox' folder, suggesting you can after all.
> When I try and collect mail to my domain name, the server receives it
> and then sends it out again (to the secondary mx where it queues until
> I finger and the process repeats itself)
>
> So the question is: can I receive mail? and if so how?

As others have pointed out, you need a POP3 server to be able to access
incoming mail from an email client, however, you *can* access it with
ASP/CDONTS. See this article for examples:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnproasp2/html/usingcdofornts.asp

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