My company just started using Fortinet VIOP solutions. Their VOIP system has the ability to send voice email. It is a two part process using SMTP and POP3. Unfortunately I have found out that Fortinet does not officially support Exchange
server. I was able to get the SMTP part working by telling Exchange that anything from the Fortinet PBX was already secure essentially white listing it. This enables the PBX to email the voice mail to the mailbox, but does not allow the second part of the
functionality which allows you to delete the voice mail from your voice mail box. This second part is ran through POP3. Fortinet support informed me that their POP3 functionality uses plain and SSL authentication. I have attempted to configure the POP3 connector
with basic and ssl authentication, and I also attempted to configure with basic with tsl authentication but it always fails the connection test on the PBX. The Fortinet rep I spoke to said that their plain authentication may not be compatible with Exchanges
basic authentication. Has anyone had experience with this issue? I am currently trying to get this functionality to work with a Microsoft Windows SBS 2008r2 system.
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