Connect to server and can't recieve POP3 problems.

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Hi,
This might be a little clearer than the last post.

I am tearing my hair out over this one (what is left of it anyway)!

I have a number of POP3 email accounts set up using outlook 2003. I also
have a VPN set up to another network with a server (so that I can share
folders in Outlook).

I can send and recieve emails with no problems when the VPN isn't connected
up. As soon as I connect the VPN the email on a couple of my accounts will
not recieve. It sends OK but will not recieve. Also, and very wierd is that
I can not get onto our website either. (probably based on the same server as
the emails. me2uweb are the hosts).

This problem seems to have prgressed over the last couple of months and now
nobody can get emails whilst there LAN is connected to the server either by
VPN or within the same office.

I can view all my shared folders though and also recieve emails from other
accounts and view other websites.

Please help me as I am stumped, big time.
Thanks
Lenny
 
Sounds like a DNS problem. Also, make sure the users are using the local
internet providers smtp or pop3 servers when VPN'ed.

Robert
 
Thanks Robert,
How do i do that? The settings in Outlook are all correct but the server via
VPN seems to be overriding these.
 
Also, why can i not access our website either?

Robert Craig said:
Sounds like a DNS problem. Also, make sure the users are using the local
internet providers smtp or pop3 servers when VPN'ed.

Robert
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I would want to look at this VPN setup a bit more closely. Some VPN's, when
they connect, change the default gateway to be what the VPN needs, and do
not allow any other traffic while the VPN is connected.

Probably not an exchange issue at all, if it appears when the VPN connects,
and goes away when the VPN is down.....
 
Yes Tom that is true for the one office. This one. Here I have a remote user
profile set up (teleworker) It is this connection only that seems to flow
everything through the VPN. When I have the VPN open I am unable to access
newsgroups in Outlook Express. I am not worried about that but it is just
another symptom.
We have other offices that have LAN to LAN VPN's set up to the server office
and they haven't had the same problems at all. Their connection is set up
between 2 Draytek Routers but my teleworker connection is between the
draytek router and the Windows XP wizard.
 
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