POP3 is not working on Microsoft Exchange Server
Check POP3 service Status:
Open Exchange Powershell and run the below command;
Get-ServerComponentstate -Identity SERVERNAME
Server | Component | State |
SERVERNAME | ServerWideOffline | Active |
SERVERNAME | HubTransport | Active |
SERVERNAME | FrontendTransport | Active |
SERVERNAME | Monitoring | Active |
SERVERNAME | RecoveryActionsEnabled | Active |
SERVERNAME | AutoDiscoverProxy | Active |
SERVERNAME | ActiveSyncProxy | Active |
SERVERNAME | EcpProxy | Active |
SERVERNAME | EwsProxy | Active |
SERVERNAME | ImapProxy | Active |
SERVERNAME | OabProxy | Active |
SERVERNAME | OwaProxy | Active |
SERVERNAME | PopProxy | Inactive |
SERVERNAME | PushNotificationsProxy | Active |
SERVERNAME | RpsProxy | Active |
SERVERNAME | RwsProxy | Active |
SERVERNAME | RpcProxy | Active |
SERVERNAME | UMCallRouter | Active |
SERVERNAME | XropProxy | Active |
SERVERNAME | HttpProxyAvailabilityGroup | Active |
SERVERNAME | ForwardSyncDaemon | Active |
SERVERNAME | ProvisioningRps | Active |
SERVERNAME | MapiProxy | Active |
SERVERNAME | EdgeTransport | Active |
SERVERNAME | HighAvailability | Active |
SERVERNAME | SharedCache | Active |
If you see the POP service state is inactive then you we need to set service state back to Active