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SBS2003 server can't get mail

I have an xda2 and was always able to collect my email from our Windows SBS2000 exchange server using VPN. Now we have upgraded to Windows SBS server 2003 we cannot get mail.
We are able to log onto the VPN.
We can even use the terminal services and see the server screen, but we cannot download mail.
If we try to get mail we get the following message:-
"Messages cannot be downloaded to your mobile device. Make sure you are connected and your e-mail account settings are correct . Then, try to download messages again"
The email settings we are using are the same as those that worked with SBS2000 server.
Can anyone help please
Thanks
Sam

From what you wrote I have gotten this...
1. Using VPN to connect to work network.
2. You can access resources on work network, proving the VPN is working.
Now, how are you connecting to get your mail? POP, Exchange Mobile???
I am going to assume you have a reason for not just using Exchange Mobile via Internet, such as don't want external access to Exchange box etc. etc.

sbs2003 mail access
I am using pop3 to access.
This was the way I accessed with SBS2000 with no problems.
The settings of my XDA2 are:
email address: [email protected]
user name: [email protected]l
password: mypassword
account type: pop3
incoming mail: servername
outgoing mail: servername
When I ask it to get mail GPRS is loaded and then VPN is loaded
then I get "connecting" then after a period I get the above error message.
If I leave the email prog and go to Terminal Service I connect and see my login and I can log in.
Sam

pop3 isnt enabled by default in sbs 2003, check settings in exchange admin and in services to make sure youve got the pop3 service running

sbs2003 mail access
Thanks for your help. Pop3 was not started, and WILL NOT START I do not know why. It says look in the Event viwer but no errors appear there.
I have started Imap and that has worked and I am receiving my mail. Thanks for your help.
Sam
PS in your first email you refer to Exchange mobile via the internet.
Isv this a big deal to setup and what are the advantages.
Again thanks for your help. If you are busy please do not bother to answer the PS. I am gewtting my mail so all is ok
Thanks again
Sam

I had it working pretty much straight away, OMA is another thing. Ultimately, we moved on from Exchange Mobile as it didn't offer real-time push capability (unless using SMS).
We now use Pylon Anywhere and couldn't be happier. Not only does it do everything you want, it only costs $654 US for five users. It works with Pocket PC, Palm and Symbian (amongst others) based devices.

Deleting Mail from the server

Hey all,
How do you get the WM5 mail client to delete the mail from the server? I'm happy with it leaving it on there when it just pulls back the headers but I want it to delete the server mail when I tell it to 'delete' on the client.
Any Ideas?
Also, what mail clients do people use?
Thanks
P

under 'options' select 'immediately' on the delete section
that will delete from the pda and the server on a universal

How do I setup my O2 to send & receive emails while out?

I have not enabled Activesync of the Inbox. I instead created an IMAP4 account which then came with its own inbox. Once the IMAP4 setup was complete, my XDA downloaded all the headers from my work mailbox, which is a gr8 relief.
One problem I have is that I can not forward or create new emails to ppl in the office because the XDA does not have a list of all users to verify against. It seems to be looking for an LDAP server, but I don't think I have one setup. How do I create an LDAP server which is available from the internet?
PS. Why would anyone use ActiveSync to sync their emails if ActiveSync can not send or receive emails using the internet (via GPRS)?

Email disappears from phone

Firstly, i have used search etc and haven't found anything, so apologies if its been asked before.
I've got email set up on my phone, downloaded fine (i think), i've got it to leave a copy on the server. so when i use my email client (thunderbird) on my pc i can download the message for those records.
Is it normal for the message to disappear from the phone once the email client downloads it?.
Is there anyway that i can download the message on my phone, and on the email client, so i effectively have duplicates.
The email client is set to remove the message from the server once downloaded.

yes, this is normal with POP email.
Just set the email client on your desktop to leave mail on the server also.

Thanks Jonno, done!

Or use IMAP4 protocol if your mail provider have it
D'rath
PS: I use IMAP4 for Laptop and Touch HD

Solution found, thread closed

[Q] POP3 email program

Hi,
I've been looking for an email program that I can use with POP3 account so when I am in a wifi zone it downloads the emails to the device / SD card and I can look at them later and respond to them which will send when I'm back in the wifi zone.
I realise I can use gmail but to look at old emails it needs a connection etc and I'm not a big fan of it.
I've tried enhanced email but it only shows what's on the POP 3 server and if I download them to my laptop, the tablet doesn't show them anymore. Again, i know it will mean different emails in the sent folders on the laptop/tablet but I can live with that.
Any ideas anyone ?
Cheers

The stock email program (with the white & yellow symbol) supports pop3. The problem you have descibed is not a problem of your tablet, but of your laptop. Your laptop email program deletes all retreived messages from the pop3 server, so you tablet cannot find them anymore.
With best regards, maris

Thanks for the reply
I want to be able to download the emails from the server onto the tablet and store them on it.
When i download them onto the laptop i want to delete them from the server BUT still have copies of them on the tablet for future reference.
If i download them onto the laptop before doing so on the tablet i obviously wont be able to get them on the tablet.

oK I CLEAN UP my garbled post..
pop 3 email ( standard settings)
will download your mail deleting from server this can be changed in advanced settings
Imap .. will allow you do download your email and sync it with the server . alowing it to sync across devices
exchange mail.. YOU log into a mail server to view download or edit your email ( settings can very depending on server settings)
what i think you need to do is.
set your computer to imap.. this will sync the mail with the server..
set the tablet to pop3 . download what is on the server. (if you have access to your mail server tell it to leave copy on server if you wish )
hope this is understandable and helpful...
good luck