Exchange 2010 Adding pop3 email for distribution

[pollardhimself]

With sbs 2003 exchange this was done in the pop3 connection manager, under mailboxes you could then add the username and pass.

Where do you add them at in exchange 2010?

 

[yinan]

Exchange mailboxes are tied to AD accounts.

 

[pollardhimself]

I want to add an external pop3 email account for distribution

I believe I need something like this

http://www.mapilab.com/exchange/exchange_pop3/

 

[yinan]

I do not understand why you would want to do this instead of having the email automatically delviered to a users mailbox.

 

[pollardhimself]

I need one email address delivered to multiple users. I have a "service" email address the gets request and distributes it to specific people

Heres what sbs has

 

[stlcardinals]

Why not use a distribution group in Exchange, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124513.aspx

The distribution group basically has it's own email address (i.e. service@whatever.com), you add users into the group.

Somebody sends an email to service@whatever.com. Everybody in the group gets a copy delivered to their own mailbox.

 

[pollardhimself]

Why not use a distribution group in Exchange, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124513.aspx

The distribution group basically has it's own email address (i.e. service@whatever.com), you add users into the group.

Somebody sends an email to service@whatever.com. Everybody in the group gets a copy delivered to their own mailbox.

That's what I am trying to do I have created the distribution group I can add the email but where do I put the pop3 username and pass? under email type i can type whatever I want pop3 or anything it doesn't matter. I went under client access \ pop3 and imap4 \ pop3 \ authentication \ and set it to plain text logon

 

[stlcardinals]

Exchange distribution groups can only have email addresses for domains that your Exchange server accepts email for.

You can either:

1. Change the email address that you have the public send emails to one that is on your Exchange server.

or

2. Find a 3rd party program that will do what you want. i.e. smartpop2exchange

 

[pollardhimself]

Exchange distribution groups can only have email addresses for domains that your Exchange server accepts email for.

You can either:

1. Change the email address that you have the public send emails to one that is on your Exchange server.

or

2. Find a 3rd party program that will do what you want. i.e. smartpop2exchange

So what your saying is exchange on sbs 2003 had a pop3 connector and exchange 2010 doesn't? And I need to buy 3rd party software?

 

[stlcardinals]

Just to clarify what you are doing:

You are wanting to get email from a PoP account(mailbox that is not on your Exchange server) to a mailbox on your Exchange server.

correct?

 

[pollardhimself]

Yes basically!

if i can do that then i can distribute the mailbox to multiple users

in sbs 2003 you just create a distribution group and assigned the pop3 connector mailbox to a users group which here it would be the "clerical" group. as you can see in the sbs2003 snap shot i took earlier

 

[stlcardinals]

You would need to do option 2 from above then.

 

[pollardhimself]

so Microsoft removed that feature in 2010 that sucks!

 

[stlcardinals]

so Microsoft removed that feature in 2010 that sucks!

It was only a SBS feature to help them move from a web based mail host to the built in Exchange.

 

[sonoma1993]

why not setup email forwarding on your pop3 email if it allows you to do it? Have it forward all mail to the distribution group?

 

[yinan]

I do not understand why you are so set on using POP3. Sharing mailboxes with multiple users is not a good thing. Just use a distribution group to send whatever emails you want directly to the users mailbox. If you want to send to an external address just use a contact. You can even put contacts in distribution groups.