POP and IMAP not working on FE

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Lion - 25 Nov 2005 19:18 GMT

I have installed another Exchange Server in to my organisation today and OWA
its working fine but I cannot start POP3 and IMAP and don't know why both of
them are running fine on the BE Server. The only difference between the FE
and BE I have ticked the box on the FE to say this is a FE Server nothing
else.

My BE its a clustered environment.

Any ideas.

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Mark Arnold [MVP] - 25 Nov 2005 20:06 GMT

>I have installed another Exchange Server in to my organisation today and OWA
>its working fine but I cannot start POP3 and IMAP and don't know why both of
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>
>Any ideas.

And you remembered that in E2K3 the IMAP and POP services are disabled
by default, and that you nipped in, set them to automatic and made
sure the VSI's were running?

You also remembered to make sure that any SSL you had on the BE is no
longer there and the only place to have SSL is the FE?

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Lion - 26 Nov 2005 11:53 GMT

Thanks Mark its working now.

What would be the best way form my mobile devices accessing the e-mail.
These are PDA with Outlook client.

I was thinking of using POP3 rather then OWA for them.

I have a domain registered www.mycompany.com

Now I need something like www.webmail.mycompany.com

but what do I need for my PDA outlook setting cos I don't want to use the IP
address do I need something like SMTP.mycompany.com and imap.mycompany.com
and pop.mycompany.com

is this the best way of doing it for PDA with OUTLOOK client.

Thanks.

>>I have installed another Exchange Server in to my organisation today and
>>OWA
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> You also remembered to make sure that any SSL you had on the BE is no
> longer there and the only place to have SSL is the FE?

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Mark Arnold [MVP] - 26 Nov 2005 16:51 GMT

If you have Windows Mobile devices then the best thing to use is
ActiveSync

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Lion - 27 Nov 2005 11:31 GMT

Do you have any doco on how to configure this feature.

Basically I have about 50 users with a PDA travelling around the world and
sometimes want to use PDA's to access there Emails or OWA if there have a PC
available.

I need a best solutions to keep all this in a sync.

Users can establish internet connection from the PDA's using the GPRS and
will be able to communicate with my FE server.

> If you have Windows Mobile devices then the best thing to use is
> ActiveSync

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Mark Arnold [MVP] - 27 Nov 2005 15:25 GMT

Depends on device and how what comms you have. See:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-42
,GGLD:en&q=configure+activesync
for a few results at the top. It's exremely easy really.
www.microsoft.com/exchange/library has a couple of resources but they
don't go into great, blow by blow, detail.

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