{"id":55,"date":"2008-12-29T15:17:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T23:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:46:30","slug":"how-to-configure-pop3-connector-in-sbs-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"How to Configure POP3 Connector in SBS 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Small Business Server 2008 comes with a POP3 connector even though it is not listed in the Getting Started Tasks and it is not configured by default.<\/p>\n

You can use the POP3 connector to retrieve e-mails from external POP3 accounts (like accounts at your ISP or GMail), to pre-selected Exchange Server Users or Distribution Groups. When you configure a POP3 connector in SBS 2008, keep in mind the following:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u2014\u008f When a user replies to an e-mail delivered through the POP3 connector, the message is sent from the local Exchange Server (or through a SmartHost – how to configure a Smart Host in SBS 2008<\/a><\/strong>). Windows SBS 2008 does not route the reply through the original POP3 e-mail server.
\n\u00e2\u2014\u008f You can choose between the following types of authentication \u00e2\u20ac\u201c BASIC (the logon credentials are sent unencrypted \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in clear text), SPA (Secure Password Authentication), and APOP(Authenticated Post Office Protocol).
\n\u00e2\u2014\u008f You can use SSL (Secure Socket Layer \u00e2\u20ac\u201c normally over port 995), if the POP3 provider supports this option. In that case, using BASIC authentication is fine, and we are demonstrating this scenario bellow.<\/p>\n

In the following Step-by-Step video tutorial<\/a><\/strong>, you will see how to configure a POP3 connector in Small Business Server 2008.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can use the POP3 connector to retrieve e-mails from external POP3 accounts, to pre-selected Exchange Server Users or Distribution Groups. In the following Step-by-Step video tutorial, you will see how to configure a POP3 connector in Small Business Server 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[198,201,197,199,200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}