Exchange 2003 Newbie seeking help

sschmidlap

I am hoping the trouble I have run into is very basic. I am working out of the MS Press book for 70-284 Exchange 2003. My environment is a single Active Directory domain with two sites. I have one admin group and two routing groups but I am only using one routing group right now. Not ready to mess with connectors yet. I have 1 front end and 1 back end exchange server in the St Louis routing group. I can create a user and set up an email box. I log into a workstation and set up the Outlook profile and that works fine. I then send a test email to myself. It will send but never comes back. It looks like the message is stuck in a queue. The back end sever is called stlexch-vs01. It's a virtual server running on a cluster. Anyway, the protocols enabled on stlexch-vs01 are HTTP and SMTP only. I am wondering, do I need to enable the POP3 protocol in order to receive? The only reason I would need the HTTP protocol is for web access, correct? I don't care about web access right now, I just want to get basic sending and receving working within the local domain environment. Thank you in advance for your help.

Claymoore

Hate to admin it, but I'm having a hard time picturing the 2003 EMC right now. Too much 2007 and 2010 I guess.

You don't need to enable POP3 to receive email inside an all MS environment. Everything in 200x is SMTP based for internal message routing, so you will need to make sure your connectors are set up correctly.

Exchange Server Transport and Routing Guide