Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

We are migrating some web server from ppedv to windows 2008. IIS 7 is a great improvement. But as always in live, nothing is perfect and we miss the pop3 server from windows 2003.

Our software "visendo" department  have build several products around pop3 (popconnect) and smtp. So we build an extender for IIS Microsoft SMTP server. So you can now use pop3 client to read mails. The solution consists of a filesystem watcher which is moving from drop to other folder(s) fitting the destination address. We support domain and single account (more than windows 2003). Configuration is done with xml. config file by notepad. Visendo SMTP Extender is developed as service with c++ for performance reasons.

On bottom you find links for download first prototype. Support by blog comments. We will open up a support group on our www.visendo.com forums. At the moment product is free an without any warranty.

btw SMTP management is still no part of iis 7 so management is done by old mmc snap in.

[UPDATE]

x64 and x32 editons with minor changes

http://www.visendo.com/download/visendosmtpextender/VisendoSMTPExtender_x64.msi

http://www.visendo.com/download/visendosmtpextender/VisendoSMTPExtender_x86.msi

 

Published Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:30 PM by preishuber

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# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:00 AM by ChristianD

Hey, this is great news ! Thanks for sharing.

I use Windows Server 2008 for (SharePoint) development purposes and I don't need or want Exchange (or SBS) to be able to test email integration !

I am running x64 so pretty please make it available soon ;-)

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:56 AM by Jonathan

I appreciate this! I use Sharepoint Services 3, and I don't need or want all of the capabilities in Exchnage. Besides, Exchange and Sharepoint don't work well together. I have a small group of 15 people, and load most of the software on 1 server. No other 3rd party apps are used!

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# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:16 AM by Phupa

Thank you very much for sharing this. I do not understand the reason why MS has removed POP3 from win2008.

I'm selling Business Contact Manager on Outlook, without POP3 server I do not know how to build DEMO kit for customer.

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 4:15 PM by Paul

Ich kriege den Kram nicht zum Laufen. Was mache ich falsch? Der Dienst wird mit Fehler und einer ellenlangen Nummer beendet. Die Mails landen im BadMail-Verzeichnis!

Wo ist der Fehler?

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Sunday, May 25, 2008 5:00 PM by cosmin

Hi, Paul

wegen SMTP extender installations Fehler, kannst du die log dateien von {system_root}\ProgramData\ppedv\Visendo SMTP Extender\Logs an unsere support Team zu senden -support{@}ppedv(dot)de .

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Monday, June 02, 2008 2:00 PM by joanindo

thanks microsoft for not making pop3 available in windows 2008.  so i dont need to upgrade my server. that's really saving my money a lot!

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:18 AM by Douglas Bustos

why dont load/start the service VisendoSMTPExtender, please help me. I install succefully, but i try to start manually the service and show a message that say the service dont load, but dont explain the reason.

Please help me.

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Friday, June 06, 2008 3:06 PM by cosmin

Getting started:

After installing the Setup package, proceed with following steps:

1. move "visendosmtpextender_sample.config" from "C:\Program Files\ppedv\visendosmtpextender" to "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ppedv\visendosmtpextender"

2. rename to "visendosmtpextender_sample.config" to "visendosmtpextender.config"

3. edit "visendosmtpextender.config" (*)

4. start service "Visendo SMTP Extender Service 2008" (**)

*) please note: when StoreFolder="C:\inetpub\mailroot\drop", and datadir is the subfolder "C:\inetpub\mailroot\drop\accountname1", destination must be "accountname1", without any "@".

Further, when there should be an "@" or "." in the accountname, replace it with "_" in the foldername. ex: datadir="C:\inetpub\mailroot\drop\account1_domain_com" destination="account1@domain.com"

**) when there are any problems starting the service, take a look in the log files to find out the reason (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ppedv\visendosmtpextender\Logs), or send them to support[at]ppedv.de

Regards

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Sunday, June 08, 2008 1:31 PM by Iwen

Installation hat ohne Probleme funktioniert. Die Lösung gefällt mir sehr gut. Leider beendet sich der Service immer. Im Log ist nichts zu sehen - ausser einem Hinweis, dass eine EMail-Datei gerade im Zugriff sei. Ich habe den Eindruck, dass nach jedem erfolgreichen Abholen der Mails, der Dienst beendet wird. Gibt es eine Lösung?

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# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Friday, July 25, 2008 1:43 PM by Steven

This works very well in my SharePoint development VM.  

Thanks.

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:41 AM by turkie

Thanx You.. Perfect Docs

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:37 AM by Chris

I can't get it to bind to the ServerIP config value.  The log file says that it is binding to that IP, however if you do a netstat -an it shows that it bound to an IP that it shouldn't of... Any ideas how to get this to work?

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Monday, August 11, 2008 3:04 AM by preishuber

@chris: Bind to IP : was a abug - fixed

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:21 PM by Marco

The service stopped working, and the log presents this message:

"License Expired or user registration missing".

The same configuration used to work before.

Do you know what can be wrong?

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Friday, September 12, 2008 7:57 PM by Ricardo Calejo

The service stopped working, and the log presents this message

I have this prob too.. did u solve it?

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 3:30 AM by cosmin

Hi,

is an new version available, with some fixes and improvements (log archiving, update notification)

you can get the new builds from :

x86 version -

www.ppedv.de/dwnld/updates/smtpextender/x86/VisendoSMTPExtender.zip

amd64 version -

www.ppedv.de/dwnld/updates/smtpextender/x64/VisendoSMTPExtender.zip

please let us know any other issues on support.visendo.com

regards

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:12 AM by Ochiai

Hi,

I'm Japanese.

I'm sorry in dirty sentences.

SMTP Extender ends because of MVSCR80.dll When accessing IMAP_OPEN Function of php.

Are there any method of settlements?

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Thursday, October 30, 2008 5:33 PM by cosmin

hi,

The SMTP extender is not supporting IMAP protocol, it's supporting only POP3 in this version.

thank you letting us know about it.

ragards

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Thursday, October 30, 2008 8:38 PM by Ochiai

Hi,Thank you for the answer.

IMAP_OPEN Function of php supports "POP3" Protocol.

X-mail (Other Mail Server Soft) was able to

reseive e-Mail by executing the IMAP_OPEN function:

imap_open("localhost:110/pop3/notls", $user, $pass);

I want to use "SMTP Extender" for php script

because "SMTP Extender" setting is easy.

I am looking forward to the next version.

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Saturday, November 08, 2008 7:34 PM by mickeysuda

i watch the log, and find it succeed, but how can i use mmc to admin "Visendo SMTP Extender"

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Monday, November 10, 2008 8:11 AM by George

Hi,

I get "License Expired or user registration missing".

Running contents of "www.ppedv.de/dwnld/updates/smtpextender/x86/VisendoSMTPExtender.zip" i get nothing visible at all. How to use this free software?

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:25 PM by Lutieri G. B.

When I try to start the service a message appear saying the service has started and stoped. And nothing else happens.

I can't not find the logs at all. I saw some directions to watch the log over c:\documents and settings\all users...

But this directory no longer exist on W2k8. Now it's c:\Users. But anyway the logs aren't over c:\users.

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Friday, November 14, 2008 9:36 AM by cosmin

Hello,

on Windows 2008, Vista operating systems, the application files folder are

C:\Users\All Users\ppedv\visendosmtpextender

Regarding the Issue with expire time, it was fixed and the new setup it is on

"www.ppedv.de/.../VisendoSMTPExtender.zip" and it is free .

For any issues or log files check let us know on support@ppedv.de.

Regards

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:50 PM by Yang

how to solve the following problem?

"When I try to start the service a message appear saying the service has started and stoped. And nothing else happens."

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Friday, November 21, 2008 3:23 AM by George

"Regarding the Issue with expire time, it was fixed and the new setup it is on "www.ppedv.de/.../VisendoSMTPExtender.zip" and it is free." - "your requested page is not longer available!"

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:58 AM by George

Email attachments (*.doc) arrive corrupted. Any workaround?

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 8:51 AM by cosmin

Regarding previous Download link, just have an " sign in the download address if you remove it will work, it is available and it is for free

About support Issues and communication please use our support forum : http://forum.visendo.com and support team email for any case regarding it.

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Friday, November 28, 2008 3:24 PM by sharepointlink

after running the .exe from the link, nothing new is visible, and there is log folder C;\users\all users.

how to solve this?

# re: Visendo SMTP (pop3) Extender for Windows 2008 Server

Friday, November 28, 2008 3:40 PM by sharepointlink

after running the .exe from the link, nothing new is visible, and there is NO log folder C;\users\all users.

how to solve this?

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