NEXCOMPAC Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 I am trying to figure out why our server 2k3 was set up to have "Mail Server (pop3, SMTP)" in the "Manage Your Server" area? POP3 is web based I thought and is not dependant of the server?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 Not true. POP3 is a client/server mail protocol. More information on POP3 can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POP3As for webmail, most commonly those are HTTP mail or IMAP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEXCOMPAC Posted March 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 Ok, I think I worded my question wrong. Yes, web based mail like hotmail is http or IMAP, but my question was about "OUR" server. Mail is not stored there localy, nor do I believe it has anything to do with how we connect to get our mail, so why would you need this option? It seems like a service running that does not need to be... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 The "Manage your server" is simply a way to quickly adapt Windows to a specific server type. If you select "Mail server" then Windows will install what's needed to run a mail server, likewise with "web server" and etc. Because it's there, does not mean it is running. This is a good article: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003...es/options.mspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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