POPBeamer for Microsoft Exchange
  • POPBeamer is a Inbound POP3 Router for Microsoft Exchange
  • POPBeamer collects messages from any POP3 account and routes it to your Exchange Server
  • POPBeamer supports Dial-Up connections to the Internet and runs independent from your Exchange Server
  • POPBeamer support automatic routing of messages and can be used to share one POP3 mailbox for a whole company
  • With POPBeamer you do not need an static IP address at your ISP because it works with dynamic IP addresses
  • You don not need to configure ETRN and DNS which Exchange Server normally requires

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System Requirements
  • Windows NT 3.51 or 4.0 or Windows 95 with TCP/IP installed
  • Microsoft Exchange Server

How does it work
  • At scheduled intervals POPBeamer scans your POP3 mailbox for new messages.
  • Once it found a message, it downloads the message and forwards the message to the Exchange Server using the SMTP protocol.
  • If Automatic Routing in POPBeamer is enabled, POPBeamer scans the message for recipients residing on the on the Exchange Server and forwards the message to every recipient.
  • If there is a problem with a message that POPBeamer can not handle, the messages sent the person who is responsible for POPBeamer, so that no message is lost.

Installation
Create a directory on your machine and copy all the files into this directory.
Start MBAdmin.exe to configure POPBeamer.


On your first start you will prompted for the following information:

  • Postmaster's Address

The address of the person who is responsible for maintaining POPBeamer. POPBeamer will send all error messages to this address.

  • Send Messages To Host

The name or IP address of the Exchange Server.
If POPBeamer is running on the same machine as the Exchange Server than you can use localhost as the name

  • If you are using a Dial-Up connection to the Internet then switch to the Dial-Up tab and enable it

 

For every POP3 mailbox that POPBeamer should scan, you need to create a routing in File -> New Inbound POP3

POPBeamer needs to know the mailbox, the password and the server ( host ) where the mailbox resides.
POPBeamer also needs the to know to which Email address the message(es) should be forwarded.
If you select Auto Detect , POPBeamer will try to figure out the recipient from the SMTP header of the message.

Note: In the case POPBeamer can not find a valid recipient in the SMTP header it will forward the message to postmaster

By default POPBeamer scans POP3 mailbox every 60 minutes for new messages unless you change the schedule.

If you use Auto Detect then you need to tell POPBeamer which recipients are on the Exchange Server.
To do this select View -> Address Table and add all Exchange Server SMTP addresses.

Note: Enclosed you will find ExchImp.Exe which imports all addresses from the Exchange Server so that you don't need to type it manually.

Note: If you want to receive all mail for your whole company through one POP3 mailbox, then select Auto Detect in Inbound POP3 Routing and ask your ISP to set up a star POP3 mailbox, which means that all messages to your domain name should be routed to one POP3 mailbox.

 

Installing POPBeamer as a Microsoft NT Service
Keep in mind that POPBeamer needs to reside on a local disk or the Service Controller can't start.
For the samples below, we assume POPBeamer is in C:\POPBeam.

Be sure that POPBeamer is running well in Console Mode and there is no error, because once you run it as a Service, you can't see a screen and a problem will only be visible in the log file.

Start MBServer.exe one time with an argument of install, by typing
MBServer install
at the Command Prompt and POPBeamer will create the service.

By default it's an AUTOSTART Service and any time your computer is started, POPBeamer will start.
You can start and stop POPBeamer at any time via Control Panel

You can start and stop POPBeamer at any time via Control Panel

Note: After you started POPBeamer as a Service, verify that POPBeamer has no errors. 
You need to take a look into the log file to do this.

Removing POPBeamer as a Microsoft NT Service
Start MBServer.exe one time with an argument of remove, by typing

MBServer remove

at the Command Prompt and POPBeamer will delete the service.

How to stop POPBeamer

  • POPBeamer runs as a console application:
  • Press ESCAPE
  • Select Close from the system menu ( works only on NT )
  • Press Alt-F4 ( works only on NT )
  • POPBeamer runs as a service on NT:
  • Open Control Panel, select Services, locate POPBeamer and press the button labeled Stop
  • type net stop POPBeamer at the Command Prompt

Upgrade to the latest Version
You will find the latest version of POPBeamer at http://www.dataenter.co.at/download.htm

To upgrade your current version of POPBeamer

  • stop MBServer.exe and close MBAdmin.exe
  • make a backup of your current MBServer.exe and MBAdmin.exe
  • extract MBServer.exe and MBAdmin.exe from the zip file and copy it into your POPBeamer directory
  • Restart MBServer.exe

Some things you should know

 

  • If you run POPBeamer under Win95 and get the error "No machine name given" at startup, then start
    "Control Panel->Network->Identification" and make sure there is something in the field labeled "Computername"

Detailed information how POPBeamer works
Everything on the Internet is is regulated with Requests for Comments (RFC's). Reading RFC's is a way to learn more how POPBeamer does something and why it does it.

RFC's supported by POPBeamer

Helpful, but not directly related RFC's

Licensing Agreement
POPBeamer © is copyrighted 1993-1998 by DataEnter, Michael Kocum,
portions © Microsoft Corp.

This product and its documentation may not, in whole or in part, be copied, reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any other natural or computer language, in any form or by any means whatsoever, be it electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written consent of DataEnter.

DataEnter makes no warranty or representation, either expressed or implied, with respect to the product POPBeamer and its documentation, their quality, performance, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

DataEnter reserves the right to revise the user's guide and make changes in the content without obligation to notify any person or organization of such a change.

In no event will DataEnter be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages, real or imagined, resulting from the use or purchase of this software.

Under no circumstances shall DataEnter's liability for damages exceed the price paid for the software license.

Should any remedy hereunder be determined to have failed, all limitations of liability and exclusion of damages set forth above shall remain in full force and effect.

The extent of the DataEnter's warranty for the software and its documentation is limited to physical defects of the distribution media containing the software.

Contact DataEnter to obtain return authorization for the replacement diskette within 30 days of the original date of purchase. Any further statement made by agents, employees, distributors or dealers of DataEnter do not constitute warranties and are not binding.

No employee of DataEnter has the authority to modify any portion of this warranty.

All brand and product names we refer to in the documentation are used solely for identification purposes and may be trademarks of other companies.

DataEnter, (the licensor) grants the buyer (the licensee) the right to use this copy of POPBeamer (the program) on a single computer at a single location servicing a single Exchange Server as long as the licensee complies with the terms of this license.

The licensor reserves the right to terminate this license if the licensee violates any part of the agreement.

The licensee agrees to make copies of the program only for backup purposes.

The licensee agrees not to copy the documentation and to take all necessary precautions to ensure that the backup copies of the software are not distributed to or acquired by other parties.

Microsoft Mail is a trademark of Microsoft Corp.
Windows for Workgroups is a trademark of Microsoft Corp.

History
v3.00 98-05-15
  • Released

 

Changed: 1998-05-13 15:52

Copyright © 1998 DataEnter, Michael Kocum