POP3 mail from an SBS server

I have been having trouble configuring SBS2000 for remote POP3 mail
collection from a PDA device (via GPRS) running Windows Pocket PC & Pocket
Outlook.

I can achieve this for a new user account that is manually added into AD,
but existing user accounts that were configured from the SBS console/Magic
Disk do not appear to collect at all. There appears to be a log on problem
of some kind.

Does anyone have any experience of this? Is there a known problem for POP3
mail collection for accounts that have been set up via the SBS admin
console/magic disk?

Is there a known 'on line' tutorial for setting up POP3 mail collection?

Thanks in advance.
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Regards,
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Charlie Houston-Brown

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Thu Jan 15 16:33:28 CST 2004

A bit odd to answer your own post, but I think I was barking up the wrong
tree a bit !

It was an authentication problem as the logon user name was not EXACTLY the
same as the email alias!

I picked up a thread on microsoft.public.exchange2000.protocols as follows
for those that might be interested:

>Whenever I try to authenticate with the POP3 or the IMAP
>server, I always get a Bad username or password response.
>I tried to recreate the users, but to no avail.

>>Make sure the alias and user name are the same.

>>>Is there any way to successfully authenticate for IMAP/POP if the alias
and username are NOT the same?

>>>>Use the format domain\nt_id\mailbox_alias

Thanks very much to James Edelen and Chris Scharff [MVP] for the info in the
thread. I can now get my people on the road up and running.
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Regards,
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Charlie Houston-Brown