"Chelle" <Chelle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I set up my 2003 server for POP 3 & SMTP and it sends email just fine.
>
> Currently our email is being hosted.
>
> Is there any way to have the internal IIS SMTP "pull" email from this
hosted
> SMTP server so that users connect to the internal IIS SMTP to get thier
mail?
> This way users do not have to connect to an external machine to get thier
> mail and I don't have to open up ALL traffic from port 25 through my
firewall
> into my network?
>
> I would like external email to be sent to the external hosted SMTP server.
> Periodically the internal IIS SMTP server to pull email from the external
> SMTP server and house it locally where clients connect and get thier
email.
>
> Thanks

<thomas03@mcleodsoft.net.nospam> wrote:

>If your email is being hosted externally, that means your POP server is
>external to your organization. SMTP was not designed to "pull" email from a
>POP server.
>
>SMTP is not an email retrieval service; it's a transport service. There is
>no way for an email client like outlook or Eudora to use SMTP to retrieve
>email. The most you could expect from SMTP is for it do deposit mail in a
>file system "drop" directory, where each individual email will have a .eml
>extension.
>
>Thomas
>
>>
>> Is there any way to have the internal IIS SMTP "pull" email from this
>hosted
>> SMTP server so that users connect to the internal IIS SMTP to get thier
>mail?
>> This way users do not have to connect to an external machine to get thier
>> mail and I don't have to open up ALL traffic from port 25 through my
>firewall
>> into my network?