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Does anyone know how to configure the Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 POP3 connection manager with GMAIL?

I'm trying to get SBS2003 to download my GMAIL and deliver it to my Exchange mailbox.

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1. I found this solution to work: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unfortunately the POP3 Connector only supports SPA (Secure Password Authentication) and changing the default port, it does not support POP3 over SSL. You might want to check with your ISP may include configuring ETRN or TURN for SMTP mail flow on demand from your end. If you feel this is necessary to Microsoft POP3 Connector, you can send feedback to our product team at mswish@microsoft.com so that they can consider adding this feature in the future release of POP3 Connector. If your have to check your POP3 mailbox using SSL, you can try third party POP3 Connectors such as "Native POP3 Connector" or POPBeamer. See: http://www.mapilab.com/exchange/pop3_connector/history.html http://www.emailprofessor.com/popbeamer.htm If you do not want to use third party POP3 Connector, we can try the following work around (using third party add-in, however I CANNOT guarantee it SHOULD work): 1: Go to http://www.stunnel.org/download/binaries.html, download the latest binary of Stunnel. This program is what handles the SSL translation for you. Download this to something like C:\stunnel. 2: Go to http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnuwin32/openssl-0.9.7c-bin.exe, download and install - this gives you the ssl dlls that you need. You will need to then copy C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\*.dll to C:\windows\system32. 3: Next you need to create a file in C:\stunnel called stunnel.conf and in this file you need the following settings: client=YES service=servicename1 [servicename1] accept = 127.0.0.1:111 connect = pop3.mailserver.net:995 --end of config-- You can change the port at the end of 127.0.0.1 to whatever you want. Change the pop3 part to whatever your pop3 server is and 995 to whatever port - but 995 is the norm. You should acquire this information from your ISP. Save the config and start up stunnel. You should have a little icon in your system tray. Now configure POP3 Connector to point to 127.0.0.1:111 or whatever port you specified and the SSL connection to check emails. NOTE: This response contains a reference to a third party World Wide Web site. Microsoft is providing this information as a convenience to you. Microsoft does not control these sites and has not tested any software or information found on these sites; therefore, Microsoft cannot make any representations regarding the quality, safety, or suitability of any software or information found there. There are inherent dangers in the use of any software found on the Internet, and Microsoft cautions you to make sure that you completely understand the risk before retrieving any software from the Internet. Please do not hesitate to let me know if you have any further concerns. Best regards, Nathan Liu (MSFT) Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security ====================================================== This newsgroup only focuses on SBS technical issues. If you have issues regarding other Microsoft products, you'd better post in the corresponding newsgroups so that they can be resolved in an efficient and timely manner. You can locate the newsgroup here: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx