Cannot collect Mail from ISP

[Andy Laffan]

I have mentioned this problem before - thanks for all your suggestions but I
am still having problems. Here is a bit more detail.

I suspect my problem is the two ISP's I have inherited

Virgin.net (ISP) provide our dial up account
Virgin support SMTP and have provided us with a single email address to
forward all mail to... mauser.i...@virgin.net

Netlink.co.uk (ISP) provide our Web Space and Domain name
Netlink provide our mulitiple email addresses, again SMTP and forward all
messages for mauser.co.uk to the virgin account mauser.i...@virgin.net

Both company's provide an SMTP server address for us to collect mail from.
This I can do if I dial up using Outlook Express which seems to collect mail
with no problems.

The problem is trying to configure SBS and Exchange to connect with the
correct server and retrieve our mail automatically.

Netlink have said we should use the following finger command:
finger mauser...@smtpmail.netlink.co.uk (Is this the correct
syntax?)

but have asked me to provide a static IP address for them to forward mail
to.

Virgin have told me that they do not provide Static IP Address's, and did
not come up with any alternate options.

Is my best solution to drop Virgin and find a ISP who can provide a Static
IP address or should there be another way round?
Am I right in thinking Demon would be a better bet?

Andy

[Jim Seymour]

[Posted and e-mailed to the author]

In order to use Exchange, your ISP must support the ETRN command (not all SMTP
servers support this) and you must have a dedicated IP address.

Without these two things, you have three basic options:

1) Switch to another ISP that supports SBS.

2) Work with your ISP to enable some way to trigger your mail.
(Sometimes, the ISP will forward mail when it is kicked by something
like a "finger" command. This is a kludge to get around the static
IP address requirement).

3) Use third-party software to gather mail using POP and distribute
it to Exchange.

Option #3 is probably the easiest to implement and there are a variety of
software solutions available. Check out http://www.cipher.com/pop.html for a
list.

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:37:41 +0100, "Andy Laffan" <ala...@ccinteractive.co.uk>
wrote:

--
-Jim Seymour. For a summary of the issues re: POP mail retrieval when
using Microsoft Exchange, please visit http://www.cipher.com/pop.html
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[David Cecil]

Hello Andy,

Check out Exemplar Software's POP 2 Exchange Connector at
http://www.exemplarsoftware.com -- it let's you use a single POP3 account
at any ISP with a normal dynamic IP address.

-- David

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