Question: Is there a way for James initiate a connection to another mail 
server and process the mail as if it had been sent to James via SMTP?

Details: I'm trying to set up a mail server for my business, but we are 
connected through a firewall to an ISP. I have been told that our ISP can 
not (or will not) "push" the mail through to us via SMTP, but that we must 
"pull" it. I can think of a few very inelegant ways to get around this 
problem (such as using the JavaMail API to make a simple program that will 
get all new messages from the ISP via POP3 and immediately send them to 
James via SMTP) but if there are any such solutions built in to James (or if 
there is some aspect of SMTP/POP3 protocols that I have overlooked) that 
would be very much prefferable. (Also it could be that I have been 
misinformed. It seems very fishy to me that an ISP would be unable to relay 
messages to our server.) The most important thing is that I need to be able 
to make use of James' Mailet Processor Pipeline, and if I don't need to use 
the smtp protocol then that would be fine.

Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions, comments, or what-have-you, I would 
greatly appreciate it! (I started this job a month ago with no experience 
outside of the JAVA programming language, and setting up a mail-server on a 
Unix machine with a JSP-based web-mail interface that could be interfaced 
with the in-house database was my first task!)

Many thanks,
Gavin

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