Retrieving POP mail from another server requires an email client...iMS is an email
server. As such, iMS can support POP clients and
send and receive email via SMTP. It was never designed to act as a client.
Regards,
Howie
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Innit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "inFusion Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:19 AM
Subject: Re: [iMS] AutoResponder with external POP Server
> I don't think CFPOP would be reliable at the scale we are looking for, is
> there any other alternative? What a shame we can't get iMS to do this. All
> we want is iMS to download email headers from an external pop server so
> that iMS can send out replies and mailings!!!
>
> I thought iMS could be configured to do anything.. why is this so hard!!
>
>
>
> At 09:51 PM 4/19/2002, Howie Hamlin wrote:
> >iMS does not have functionality to retrieve POP mail from a POP
> >server. You would need to use CFPOP (or the equivalent) for this.
> >
> >HTH,
> >
> >Howie
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >
> >To: "inFusion Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:11 PM
> >Subject: [iMS] AutoResponder with external POP Server
> >
> >
> > > We have downloaded the eval version of IMS and FusionMail. We have
> > > succesfully tested IMS as an SMTP Server and it works fine. However, we do
> > > not want to use it as a POP Server.
> > >
> > > We are using an external POP server for our present email requirements. We
> > > need to build an Autoresponder which can log into our existing pop server
> > > at regular intervals, download the messages, get the sender email
> > > addresses, insert them into our database and then send out personalized
> > > responses using IMS. I was trying to do this through FusionMail by
> > > modifying the rcpt file, but I can only get it to work for mails sent out
> > > using IMS as the SMTP Server, ie mails sent from any other mail server are
> > > not being replied to.
> > >
> > > I am able to connect to my external pop server through the Pop Server Test
> > > Console however, and I can view the mails on the pop server. Can I connect
> > > to an external POP server through the IMS templates as well ?
> > >
> > > I would appreciate any help and sample code you can give me.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Vishal.
> > >
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