Retrieving mail from multiple POP accounts

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I have a Notes 7 client setup to retrieve mail from 3 POP mail accounts. 1) user@domain1.com

  1. user@domain2.com

  2. user2@domain2.com

This scenario worked fine until I added the 3rd account. Once the 3rd account was added, mail is only retrieved from one of the domain2.com accounts. Seems like it goes out to the pop server and gets the mail from the first account it sees. If I delete the 2nd account the mail gets retrieved from the 3rd account.

Apparently I have a little snafu in either an account or a location. Anyone have any ideas, thoughts or solutions?

Thanks, Mike

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Subject: Retrieving mail from multiple POP accounts

I was going to tell you to check the setting in the connection, and location settings.

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Subject: RE: Retrieving mail from multiple POP accounts

I was going to tell you to check the setting in the >>connection, and location settings.

Okay, but what should I be looking for?? 2 accounts work fine, but only fails when I add the 3rd account, any 2nd account with the same pop server.

Thanks,

Mike

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Subject: Retrieving mail from multiple POP accounts

I noticed the same error : Notes is not able to retrieve mails from two pop accounts on the same server.

I used a workaround by creating two location documents, one for each pop account. In each pop document, I only tick the site from which I use the account (instead of the default value : *). To retrieve the mails, I switch from one site to another.

I also saw on this forum a post advising to enter a dns address in one account and the ip address in the other, but I didn’t try this method…

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Subject: RE: Retrieving mail from multiple POP accounts

Using the IP address is okay, but by modifying the hosts file you can do more than 2 POP accounts to the same POP server. In addition, you only need to change the IP address in one spot should that change.

I was able to get around it by doing the following:

In the windows hosts file (located under C:\Windows for 9x or C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc for Win2000/XP)

Add the following line: 192.168.0.1 mail.myserver.com mail2.myserver.com

Change the 192.168.0.1 to match the ip of your mail server.

In addition, change the mail.myserver.com, etc to match your mail servers name.

By putting in the added mail2, etc, you can add virtual mail servers.

Change the second POP account to point to the mail2.myserver.com.

Restart your Notes client to reflect the changes. The notes client will now see two seperate mail server accounts and replicate accordingly.

Of course, this is a workaround, and IBM should look into this for a more permanent fix. This problem is still present in client version 7.0.1.

Regards