POP3 E-Mail
Some small businesses still rely on external e-mail accounts, and they can be useful during the transition to a new SBS installation. We think using Microsoft Exchange is a far better solution overall, but SBS does support using external, Post Office Protocol v3 (POP3) e-mail accounts. The Window SBS POP3 Connector has changed in SBS 2008 from the version in SBS 2003 in three important ways:
POP3 e-mail is brought to the SBS server using SMTP, allowing for full scanning and filtering and direct integration into Exchange.
POP3 e-mail can be scheduled for retrieval every five minutes.
The POP3 connector no longer supports generic e-mail boxes. Each e-mail box must be explicitly configured and assigned.
Configuring POP3 e-mail requires you ...
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