Exchange 2003 Pop3 connector Isseue
Chico
I am using SBS 2003 with Exchange 2003 sp2. Exchange uses a pop3
connector to recieve emails from the companies ISP. All is working great and
the mail is flowing except for a certain email from another company. I have
done some troubleshooting and have found out that the emails arrive in the
incoming folder for the pop3 connector, then as soon as exchange goes to move
it to the pickup folder it fails and moves to the failed mail folder. Upon
looking at the emails that are failing, I have determined that the From:
field has been stripped out. If i manually edit the failed mail and add the
From: "user" <us...@anywhere.com>, then put the mail back into the incoming
folder, then the mail gets delivered without a problem.
Here is a sample header (XXXXX's have been added for security reasons) of
what has come into the failed mail folder:
Received: by [XXXXX.xxxxx.local (Microsoft Connector for POP3 Mailboxes)] id
<"{D37A7898-A0E1-4E0E-9464-FE3881C660EA}"@XXXXX.local>; Wed, 16 Jan 2008
10:38:53 -0500
Return-Path: <sup...@waypointinfo.com>
Delivered-To: user...@vianet.ca
Received: (qmail 26746 invoked by uid 0); 16 Jan 2008 15:38:37 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO mail-05.primus.ca) (216.254.136.21)
by 0 with SMTP; 16 Jan 2008 15:38:37 -0000
Received: from [206.191.20.34] (helo=xyz)
by mail-05.primus.ca with smtp (Exim 4.63)
(envelope-from <sup...@waypointinfo.com>)
id 1JFAKs-0001J8-0M; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:37:50 -0500
Subject: Alert for Device C-FBTW (0707A00257)
To:
I have a similar server setup with a different ISP and have had the emails
sent to that server and can recieve the same emails with out issue. Has
anyone experienced this? Can anyone assist in solving this problem, as these
emails are critical to the company. thanks in advance
Ken
Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]
> Hi,
> I am using SBS 2003 with Exchange 2003 sp2. Exchange uses a pop3
> connector to recieve emails from the companies ISP.
Note that the POP connector in SBS, is *not* actually part of Exchange, but
is part of SBS. It's also buggy and error prone, as are all POP connectors.
If you need help with the POP connector, try posting in
microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs - but I suggest you ditch POP entirely,
and host the domain's mail directly in Exchange via SMTP delivery, which is
how it's meant to work.
This is easy to set up, works even if you have a dynamic IP if you get a
dynamic DNS host (www.dyndns.com is my favorite), and is outlined here:
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF002.html