POP3 Access to Exchange Server

Hi All,

The company I work for is rolling out a private DSL to network to 11
branches. As part of the rollout we will be hosting our own e-mail using
Exchange, taking it from our current ISP. As the rollout is scheduled to
take place over a number months (it is being done in conjunction with the
rollout of an ERP solution), the branches are not online will still require
dial-up access to an e-mail account.

To this achieve this I was thinking of using the Exchange POP3 and SMTP
servers as all the branches will need to change in their e-mail
configuration is the server names (I would keep the same username and
password initially).

I have experimented with this a little but so far, I am able to connect to
the server but not authenticate.

Has anyone used this at all?

I am running SBS 2k.

Javier
Tue Aug 12 21:26:07 CDT 2003

Craig,

I'm not sure what you are asking for... but:

You could start by taking a look at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/exchange2000/maintain/operate/13x2kada.asp
Remember that you will have to run ICW and create appropiate filters for
POP3..

Apart from that... be careful on how you allow relaying of those braches to
your SBS server (restrict it by IP and disable the guest account). I suggest
you use their ISP SMTP server instead (if they have one available).

HIH,

Javier

"Craig Iedema" <craig@iedema.name> wrote in message
news:OGMzq$TYDHA.2548@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi All,
>
> The company I work for is rolling out a private DSL to network to 11
> branches. As part of the rollout we will be hosting our own e-mail using
> Exchange, taking it from our current ISP. As the rollout is scheduled to
> take place over a number months (it is being done in conjunction with the
> rollout of an ERP solution), the branches are not online will still
require
> dial-up access to an e-mail account.
>
> To this achieve this I was thinking of using the Exchange POP3 and SMTP
> servers as all the branches will need to change in their e-mail
> configuration is the server names (I would keep the same username and
> password initially).
>
> I have experimented with this a little but so far, I am able to connect to
> the server but not authenticate.
>
> Has anyone used this at all?
>
> I am running SBS 2k.
>
>