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Send SMS from Outlook (Via Exchange Server or Lotus Notes using POP3) |
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| "I'm using Microsoft Exchange Server or Lotus Notes, how do I allow my users to send SMS from Outlook?" |
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VisualGSM Enterprise has a separate Email2SMS Addon that can read from POP3 accounts and send emails as SMS messages.
Users using Exchange Server or Lotus Notes can configure their mail server to allow POP3 access of their a mailbox.
Here are instructions to enable POP3 support for the case of Exchange Server: |
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| When an email message arrives in your inbox, Exchange stores the message in the Information Store, which houses your mailbox. You can read your email message with any email client, including those that use POP3, MAPI, and IMAP. |
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| A POP3 server listens on TCP port 110 for a user such as yourself to connect, identify you, and download your mail. With Exchange Server, the Information Store service listens on TCP port 110. You don't need to install and run any additional service (such as an Exchange POP3 service) for Exchange to support POP3, and you don't even have to install IMS in the organization. However, you must enable POP3 for a user at the site level, the server level, or the mailbox level. |
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| A Protocols container at the site level includes a POP3 object. Screen 1, shows the properties of the POP3 object. When you select the Enable protocol check box, the Information Store listens on the server as TCP port 110 for user requests. You can Telnet to TCP port 110 of the server to see the reply a client program will receive, which will look similar to the following reply: |
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| +OK Microsoft Exchange POP3 server version 5.5.1960.6 ready. |
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| This response tells the client that the server is a POP3 server and is ready to authenticate users and give them their email. At this point, the client identifies the user and requests email using POP3. When you enable POP3 at the site level, you automatically enable it at the server and mailbox levels. Screen 2 shows the properties of your mailbox, and displays the protocols enabled for your mailbox. |
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| Screen 2 shows that you can access your mailbox with several protocols, including POP3. Your mailbox inherits these protocol settings from the Exchange server, but you can modify these settings for each mailbox by clicking Settings. Screen 3 shows the details of your POP3 settings. |
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| You can turn off POP3 support for a particular user, or you can change the parameters that determine how the server handles POP3 messages. As you can with many Exchange features, you can define a default behavior for a group of users and override it as necessary. |
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| Now that you have an idea of how you can use Exchange Server with SMTP and POP3 to deliver and read email, you can start to optimize the email clients within your Exchange-based organization. |
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| Relevant links |
How to configure Microsoft Exchange SMTP Connector to send SMS
Send an SMS via email Demo |
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