Hello,
we have a small company and are connecet over a dialin connection to our internet provider.
We have a multiple () pop3 account (@mydomain.de). All mails will be stored in the * pop3 account.
Is it possible that domino can grab the mails from this account and deliver them to the right owner for example MikeThomson@mydomain.de to my inbox and TimTaylor@mydomain.de to Tim Taylors inbox and so on?
where can i configure it?
thx
Mike
Subject: can Domino connect to POP3 Accounts?
Not sure about the server, but I do use the Notes 6 client as my e-mail client at home to handle my personal mail with ISP. I enjoy the full-text indexing, archiving, and its easy to backup a single NSF file. Also, I know my client more than ever because I use it at both home and work. I kind of grows on you.
Setting this up was not very intuitive in Notes 5 (by which I mean I had to refer to Help), but the wizards in Notes 6 make it relatively painless (File - Preferences - Client Reconfiguration Wizard).
One thing to watch out for (it may not be an issue with 6, but it was with 5), is to make sure you configure it to NOT leave mail on the POP3 server. The default setting was to leave mail on the server and my mailbox filled up at my ISP and started bouncing.
Another problem I had was sending mail with attachments. I got SMTP timeout error messages on the replicator and I had to make a change to a setting in my note.ini file which helped, but eventually the real issue turned out to be a problem with my DSL router and it ws resolved after a firmware upgrade.
An ongoing issue is the the Notes Client does not gracefully handle HTML mail that uses CSS2 style sheets with positioning. So some of my emails look strange and if I really want to see them properly, I have to copy the source to a file and open in my browser. I can live with this for now, but I’d really like this feature to be added to the Notes client.
Subject: Notes client: yes, Domino server: no
The Notes client can retrieve e-mail from POP3 accounts. I haven’t found a configuration option within the server document of the Domino server to retrieve POP3 e-mail from the provider on the server side. That was the question as I read it. Correct me if I am wrong.
As far as I know Domino retrieves e-mail only via SMTP or Notes RPC and is able to provide POP3 services for Notes / Outlook / Eudora etc. mail clients. If you want to use the Domino server for e-mail handling your internet provider has to supply an inbound SMTP service to you. If the provider doesn’t have this service your stuck to the Notes client for retrieving POP3 e-mail.
Subject: Domino server can’t retrieve from POP3 accounts…you need 3rd party software
Like a href=http://www.keysolutions.com/pop3fido>POP3Fido] which runs as
a server task for any Domino platform…
Subject: RE: can Domino connect to POP3 Accounts?
I also have Notes 6 client installed at home to get POP3 email from my ISP. I can send mail via smtp OK, but for some reason I can not receive mail from my ISP.I do have the proper account document setup and location document. Do I need a connection document?. Do I need any settings in my Domino directory document?. I followed the ‘Help’ instructions but can’t find anything that is preventing my notes client to get email from my ISP… I have my preferences setup to check for mail every 1 minute.
Subject: RE: can Domino connect to POP3 Accounts?
GeorgeI am collecting POP3 mail from 5 different accounts and 3 different ISPs both with R5 and R6 - no problems there, so your setup is probably wrong. Try deleting the account and recreating it - the document is encrypted at creation, and you may have had the wrong key. That’s been my most common problem.
For the original question, you could have a client collect all POP mail and dump it into a server database, then run an agent to distribute it.
Subject: RE: can Domino connect to POP3 Accounts?
Hi Henry,
thx for ure help. can u explain it a little bit more. its my first domino installation and i tried to test before we install it in our company.
if i install the domino server and a client on the same computer. I can setup in the client the pop3 account, ok. But what i must configure to dump the mails into a servers database?
Subject: RE: can Domino connect to POP3 Accounts?
To start with, everyone will tell you NOT to have Domino server and client on the same machine (but I’m as guilty as the next because I’m doing it. Only for the cash-strapped!)
Answering your second point, you could set up a “bogus” Notes client, properly registered in the server NAB, and have that run on either a dedicated client machine (any old box will do since it’s doing minimal work) or on the server (tsk, tsk). This client will retrieve mail from as many POP accounts as you like, as often as you like, and all results will sit in its inbox on the server. You then would have to write a small agent that periodically goes through the inbox and forwards the mail to the intended recipient. Very easy stuff.
Subject: Domino is no POP-Client
Domino is no POP- or IMAP-client, so you can not retrieve mail from those accounts with a server task. (But Domino is able to listen for smtp-packages on port 25 and that means your Domino should be a regular smtp-server with official IP and DNS entry.) The only chance to collect emails in Domino (e.g. retrieving from exchange or ISP) is to run a client on an extra machine that collects email and stores them on the server (e.g. mail-in-database). Or you can spend money to buy additional software (exchange connector or POP-retrievers).
Subject: Domino is no POP-Client…
but fetchmail can do the job and is available on nearly any platform
Install it on your domino server and let it do the job of collecting mails from different mailboxes at different ISPs.
Subject: RE: Domino is no POP-Client…
Subject: I use POP3Fido. It’s great and inexpensive.
http://www.keysolutions.com/webhome/pop3fido.html
Tell Ken Yee that I sent you.
Subject: Yes, with a 3rd-party utility (not expensive!)…
… there are many utilities around. Search on Google for “domino server pop3”.
We’re trying one at the moment called POPWeasel, which has a 30 day trial version, & costs £65/€100/$100 after that. It can be downloaded from Mailgate Products - POPWeasel - POP3 connector for smtp servers
Hope this helps,
Paul