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Can Small business server 2003 also be a pop3 server?

Hello, I currently have Small Business Server 2003. Right now I have a problem setting up the Microsoft Exchange Server. I bought a domain name from no-ip.com. Now I can send and receive email no problem from the remote Outlook 2003 from the server’s site. But now I want to use the same account on my Outlook 2003 which is on my computer not the server. After I type in the account information I hit the test button. It comes back saying SMTP connection successful. But the pop3 account it says no connection found and to check port settings. I opened the 110 port on the router firewall and rechecked the user name and password along with the domain name; everything is correct. Like I said the SMTP part works great. Its just setting up the pop3. So my question is am I just overlooking something simple or is SBS 2003 not a pop3 server and do I need to find extra software to make it become a pop3 server? Thanks Mike Ok, got it going thank you very much! I am using outlook 2003 because I know not everyone uses exchange and pop3 and smtp setting are more popular. But now a new problem, lol. After I hit send the server takes the mail but does not send it out. Just sits in one of the folders. What am I over looking now any ideas? I looked on yahoo for more answers but no luck. Thanks again! Mike

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1. Only after the required software has been installed.
2. If you have exchange installed, you should have a pop service installed. If you don't have pop installed, windows 2k3 doesn't have the pop service installed by default http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Windows_POP3_Service.html those are the instructions on how to configure it.
3. Yes Exchange has POP3 services. But you have an Exchange Server, why would you want to connect to it with Outlook and not use Exchange? Exchange lets you do a whole lot that you can't do with POP and you want to realize that it is Exchange. When you set the account up, you need to set up an Exchange account and not a POP. It asks you what type of account early in the account setup and you want to say Exchange. It will only ask for the Exchange server and your user name. No SMTP server, No POP server. It is easier if the computer is already joined to the domain and you are logged into the domain. I think that is all you are missing. I have only really ever used the POP services once and that was to get the messages to a cell phone that user didn't want to have all his messages forwarded to. If you need help email me. Exchange is pretty complicated if you have never dealt with it. It works quite a bit different than POP. P.S. If you have two partitions, one for the system and one for data, the manufacturer always leaves the Exchange data on the system drive. That is a long-term time bomb because eventually it fills up the system drive and shuts it down. In the next month or so, you probably want to move it.