How to Configure Calendaring Options for a POP3 or IMAP4 Virtual Server

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You can configure a URL to gain access to calendaring information for your POP3 and IMAP4 messaging clients. This enables you to use a POP3 or IMAP4 messaging client and Outlook Web Access to manage your calendar. The options that you select for this feature control the format of the URL.

Before You Begin

For more information about the user experience when calendaring using POP3 or IMAP4, see Managing Calendaring Options for the POP3 and IMAP4 Virtual Servers.

Note

In topologies that contain Exchange front-end and back-end servers, configure the URL that is used to access calendaring information about the back-end server. Exchange does not recognize any URL settings that you configure on the front-end servers.

Note

The URL to the meeting request does not work for POP3 clients that are configured to download messages from the server. The URL does not work because the message is downloaded to the client. As a result, the URL points to a message that is no longer on the server.

Procedure

To configure calendaring options for a POP3 or IMAP4 virtual server

  1. In Exchange System Manager, expand First Administrative Group, expand the Servers node, and then expand the Exchange server for which you want to manage POP3 or IMAP4 calendaring options.

  2. Expand the Protocols node, and then right-click the POP3 or IMAP4 protocol and select Properties.

  3. On the Calendaring tab, select the server where recipients download meeting requests:

    • To designate the recipient's home server as the server where the recipient downloads meeting requests, select Use recipient's server.

      This is the default setting. If you select this option, the URL has the following format:

      https://<HomeServerName>/Exchange/Username/Inbox/Team%20Meeting.eml

    • To designate a front-end server as the server where recipients download meeting requests, select Use front-end server.

      This option is useful if you have configured your Outlook Web Access users to access their mailboxes through a front-end server. If you select this option, the URL has the following format:

      https://<FQDomainName>/Exchange/Username/Inbox/Team%20Meeting.eml

  4. To use SSL to connect to the Exchange servers, select Use SSL connections.

    Note

    If you select this option, the URL syntax includes https:// instead of https://.

  5. Click OK to save your settings.

For More Information

For information about configuring and managing client protocols, see Managing Protocols.