POP3 server & Vista(Win7)

I just want to install a POP3 server in Vista(Win7) -- actually I've got
a Win7 machine and have, i think?, installed a POP3 server(via
download.live.com) --

its just not clear to me how i know whether the POP3 server is running,
since in Win7 Services i don't find a POP3 service...? any help would
be greatly appreciated --

-r


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rickkar

A POP3 service without an SMTP service to feed it is useless. An SMTP
service transfers email between servers, the email is then handed off to the
POP3 service for download by a client application like Windows Mail, Windows
Live Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, or the like...that's how an email server
operates. Is that what you're looking to do, run an email server? You'd
need a server operating system to do that properly, client operating systems
like Windows XP and Vista won't support server applications like email
servers. If this isn't your plan, some additional details on what you're
trying to accomplish would be most helpful.

Hal
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Hal Hostetler, CPBE
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
www.kvoa.com -- KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ.
Live at Hot Licks - www.badnewsbluesband.com


"rickkar" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> I just want to install a POP3 server in Vista(Win7) -- actually I've got
> a Win7 machine and have, i think?, installed a POP3 server(via
> download.live.com) --
>
> its just not clear to me how i know whether the POP3 server is running,
> since in Win7 Services i don't find a POP3 service...? any help would
> be greatly appreciated --
>
> -r
>
>
> --
> rickkar

"rickkar" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> I just want to install a POP3 server in Vista(Win7) -- actually I've got
> a Win7 machine and have, i think?, installed a POP3 server(via
> download.live.com) --
>
> its just not clear to me how i know whether the POP3 server is running,
> since in Win7 Services i don't find a POP3 service...? any help would
> be greatly appreciated --

I answered you original post on this question almost 2 days ago.

Go find it.


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Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. MAIL. [DTS] UK.
http://www.getsafeonline.org/

i can t help you
"rickkar" <> a écrit dans le message de
news:...
>
> I just want to install a POP3 server in Vista(Win7) -- actually I've got
> a Win7 machine and have, i think?, installed a POP3 server(via
> download.live.com) --
>
> its just not clear to me how i know whether the POP3 server is running,
> since in Win7 Services i don't find a POP3 service...? any help would
> be greatly appreciated --
>
> -r
>
>
> --
> rickkar

Hal

thanks and yes I have an SMTP service running -

my config involves two machines -- machine1 sends email to machine2 -
its machine2 that's involved with my questions -

you mentioned WinXP and Vista won't support server applications lik
email servers -- is the same true for Win2K8 R2 (aka Win7)...

thanks very much

-

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rickkar

Regardless of what version of Windows, it must be a server flavor, not a
consumer flavor. The SMTP service included with most versions of Windows
server is there for IIS and is designed to be a web page email sender.
That's all it knows how to do, it has no knowledge of POP servers and how to
hand email off to them. The "POP service", if, as Mac suggested, is part of
Windows Live Mail that you downloaded from download.Live.com, that service
only knows how to contact a POP server and download email from it, it is not
a POP server service. What you need is an email server system; we use
Exchange Server 2003 here. This is the best I can come up with for
additional systems:

http://www.webbuyersguide.com/produc...t.aspx?CID=401
E-mail Servers

Hal
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Hal Hostetler, CPBE
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
www.kvoa.com -- KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ.
Live at Hot Licks - www.badnewsbluesband.com

"rickkar" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hal,
>
> thanks and yes I have an SMTP service running --
>
> my config involves two machines -- machine1 sends email to machine2 --
> its machine2 that's involved with my questions --
>
> you mentioned WinXP and Vista won't support server applications like
> email servers -- is the same true for Win2K8 R2 (aka Win7)...?
>
> thanks very much!
>
> -r
>
>
> --
> rickkar