Accessing POP3 mail remotely

I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to pull mail in from our SBS 2000 Exchange
server. I created a new account in Outlook Express for POP3 and use our
external IP numbers for the POP3 & SMTP servers. When I try to access it I
get the following message:

The server responded with an error. Account: 'XX.XXX.XX.XXX', Server:
'XX.XXX.XX.XXX', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR AVG POP3 Proxy
Server: Cannot connect to the mail server!', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No,
Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC90

I have a port open on the Watchguard firewall for POP3 mail. I'm stumped, I
can reach the server via POP3 internally using the servers internal IP
numbers. What am I missing? TIA!

NoJags
Tue Apr 26 03:50:43 CDT 2005


"Bob S." <rshamanz@insightduh.arar.com> wrote in message
news:uNo3z5gSFHA.3424@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to pull mail in from our SBS 2000
> Exchange
> server. I created a new account in Outlook Express for POP3 and use our
> external IP numbers for the POP3 & SMTP servers. When I try to access it I
> get the following message:
>
> The server responded with an error. Account: 'XX.XXX.XX.XXX', Server:
> 'XX.XXX.XX.XXX', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR AVG POP3 Proxy
> Server: Cannot connect to the mail server!', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No,
> Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC90
>
> I have a port open on the Watchguard firewall for POP3 mail. I'm stumped,
> I
> can reach the server via POP3 internally using the servers internal IP
> numbers. What am I missing? TIA!
>

This used to work quite well, but I think it stopped working as a result of
a security patch some time ago. I gave up and remote users now use Outlook
Web Access or VPN. OWA itself is restricted if you're using urlscan; some
emails will just appear as blank if the subjects contain disallowed
characters. OWA also only works properly with Internet Explorer: if you
prefer Firefox or Mozilla some of the controls are missing.

Henry
Tue Apr 26 09:06:18 CDT 2005

Have you actually started the POP3 Server Service ?

--
Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
CI Information Technology
----------------------------------------------------
Melbourne SBS Users Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/melb-SBSusers/

"Bob S." <rshamanz@insightduh.arar.com> wrote in message
news:uNo3z5gSFHA.3424@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to pull mail in from our SBS 2000
> Exchange
> server. I created a new account in Outlook Express for POP3 and use
> our
> external IP numbers for the POP3 & SMTP servers. When I try to access
> it I
> get the following message:
>
> The server responded with an error. Account: 'XX.XXX.XX.XXX', Server:
> 'XX.XXX.XX.XXX', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR AVG POP3 Proxy
> Server: Cannot connect to the mail server!', Port: 110, Secure(SSL):
> No,
> Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC90
>
> I have a port open on the Watchguard firewall for POP3 mail. I'm
> stumped, I
> can reach the server via POP3 internally using the servers internal IP
> numbers. What am I missing? TIA!
>
>

Bob
Tue Apr 26 22:10:34 CDT 2005

It was the firewall. Even though it was open it didn't let me in to the POP3
service until I set up a NAT connection to the Exchange server. Everything
appears to be working now. Thanks!

"Henry Craven [SBS-MVP]" <IUnknown@Dot.Nyet> wrote in message
news:eu8eqnqSFHA.3188@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Have you actually started the POP3 Server Service ?
>
> --
> Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
> CI Information Technology
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Melbourne SBS Users Group
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/melb-SBSusers/
>
> "Bob S." <rshamanz@insightduh.arar.com> wrote in message
> news:uNo3z5gSFHA.3424@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to pull mail in from our SBS 2000
> > Exchange
> > server. I created a new account in Outlook Express for POP3 and use
> > our
> > external IP numbers for the POP3 & SMTP servers. When I try to access
> > it I
> > get the following message:
> >
> > The server responded with an error. Account: 'XX.XXX.XX.XXX', Server:
> > 'XX.XXX.XX.XXX', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR AVG POP3 Proxy
> > Server: Cannot connect to the mail server!', Port: 110, Secure(SSL):
> > No,
> > Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC90
> >
> > I have a port open on the Watchguard firewall for POP3 mail. I'm
> > stumped, I
> > can reach the server via POP3 internally using the servers internal IP
> > numbers. What am I missing? TIA!
> >
> >
>
>