It seems to be that some companies do not have an Microsoft
Exchange server and rely on other mail systems (like Lotus Domino
server) for their corporate email. Recently I was asked at such a
company if it is possible to have incoming email enabled on
SharePoint without an Exchange server. After a day of research I
had to conclude: YES, it's possible! It's not that hard either
too!
What do you need to do:
- Point a MX (mail relay) DNS record to the SharePoint server.
For example wss.company.com. This is because all email will have to
be delivered to the SharePoint server.
- Enable SMTP on your server
http://www.itsolutionskb.com/2008/11/installing-and-configuring-windows-server-2008-smtp-server/
- Configure incoming email on the SharePoint server with the
following settings:
This should make it work. However when I tried it my drop folder
kept getting cleaned (by the timer job) but the mail never appeared
in the list. I played around with some settings and found these
working:
