odd man out

8 Nov 2005 5:00 AM

instauratio

I have a SBS with Exchange running. 4 of the 5 users are within the domain.

But one guy is an old timer. He only sends/receives one email every month or
so. and that is all he uses his machine for. Since he has Xp home. I thought
I would just set him up with a pop account pointed toward my SBS exchange
server.

However, the connection fails. Can this work? Am I doing something wrong?
He has an exchange account on the server.

Should I have used IMAPI?

I recall reading something about SBS not providing POP service. Could this
be what they were referring to?

8 Nov 2005 7:26 AM

Mark Arnold [MVP]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 21:00:01 -0800, "instauratio"
<instaura***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

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>I have a SBS with Exchange running. 4 of the 5 users are within the domain.
>
>But one guy is an old timer. He only sends/receives one email every month or
>so. and that is all he uses his machine for. Since he has Xp home. I thought
>I would just set him up with a pop account pointed toward my SBS exchange
>server.
>
>However, the connection fails. Can this work? Am I doing something wrong?
>He has an exchange account on the server.
>
>Should I have used IMAPI?
>
>I recall reading something about SBS not providing POP service. Could this
>be what they were referring to?
>

It should indeed work but remember that the POP3 and IMAP services are
disabled on Exchange 2003 (you didn't give a version!!)
Another plan might be to "teach" him OWA and save yourself a PC