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Pulling email from external SMTP
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| Chelle 2005-07-05, 2:48 am |
| I set up my 2003 server for POP 3 & SMTP and it sends email just fine.
Currently our email is being hosted.
Is there any way to have the internal IIS SMTP "pull" email from this hosted
SMTP server so that users connect to the internal IIS SMTP to get thier mail?
This way users do not have to connect to an external machine to get thier
mail and I don't have to open up ALL traffic from port 25 through my firewall
into my network?
I would like external email to be sent to the external hosted SMTP server.
Periodically the internal IIS SMTP server to pull email from the external
SMTP server and house it locally where clients connect and get thier email.
Thanks
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| Thomas McLeod 2005-07-19, 5:54 pm |
| If your email is being hosted externally, that means your POP server is
external to your organization. SMTP was not designed to "pull" email from a
POP server.
SMTP is not an email retrieval service; it's a transport service. There is
no way for an email client like outlook or Eudora to use SMTP to retrieve
email. The most you could expect from SMTP is for it do deposit mail in a
file system "drop" directory, where each individual email will have a .eml
extension.
Thomas
"Chelle" <Chelle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7AE09D65-65A8-4C02-B48F-298B7B42E26A@microsoft.com...
> I set up my 2003 server for POP 3 & SMTP and it sends email just fine.
>
> Currently our email is being hosted.
>
> Is there any way to have the internal IIS SMTP "pull" email from this
hosted
> SMTP server so that users connect to the internal IIS SMTP to get thier
mail?
> This way users do not have to connect to an external machine to get thier
> mail and I don't have to open up ALL traffic from port 25 through my
firewall
> into my network?
>
> I would like external email to be sent to the external hosted SMTP server.
> Periodically the internal IIS SMTP server to pull email from the external
> SMTP server and house it locally where clients connect and get thier
email.
>
> Thanks
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| Peter D. Hipson 2005-07-23, 9:06 pm |
| On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:45:14 -0400, "Thomas McLeod"
<thomas03@mcleodsoft.net.nospam> wrote:
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>If your email is being hosted externally, that means your POP server is
>external to your organization. SMTP was not designed to "pull" email from a
>POP server.
>
>SMTP is not an email retrieval service; it's a transport service. There is
>no way for an email client like outlook or Eudora to use SMTP to retrieve
>email. The most you could expect from SMTP is for it do deposit mail in a
>file system "drop" directory, where each individual email will have a .eml
>extension.
>
>Thomas
>
>hosted
>mail?
>firewall
I'll disagree a bit with thte above advise, you can't "pull" but the
ISP's SMTP can be told to push the mail (basically relay) to your SMTP
server, which then would drop to your POP3 server.
This is a common technique. I host my olwn email, but have my ISP's
SMTP with a different prioity so that if my server is down, the ISPs
will grab the emails. When my systme comes back online the ISPs SMTP
sees it (it checks on a schedule) and relays my emails to me.
PeterD, the Darkstar Network
To email, fix my address!
ExpertZone!
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