Sunday, December 18, 2011

Can a simple home Windows 2000 Pro POP3 mailbox be set up to allow an external Webmail to slurp up a mailbox?

I'm using Windows 2000 on this box, and cannot find a simple POP3 server for this purpose, or even if it can be done (free of charge). I'm aware that Windows Server 2003 for example has a built-in simple POP3 server, but installing an entire operating system for this little task would be silly. The problem in part is that trying to search for POP3 and mailbox and server simply shows millions of results for using someone else's POP3 server, not how to set up your own for use from a home IP address. All I want to do is dump a single Thunderbird mailbox with hundreds of old newsletters into an external Webmail service which will very easily access any POP3 mailbox if only the server is set up with which to begin. I know how to work with DNS and already have my own domain names and a dynamic IP address service subscription; I just need a program for serving POP3 mail.

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