SBS 2003 POP Retrival Time

This is how to change the POP3 Connector for Microsoft Exchange retrival time to get email quicker than 15min minimum that Microsoft allows.

Please try the following steps:

Warning If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. . Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

1. Click "Start", click "Run", type "regedit" (without the quotation marks) in the "Open" box, and then click "OK".

2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SmallBusinessServer\Network\POP3 Connector"
3. On the "Edit" menu, point to "New", and then click "DWORD Value".
4. Type "ScheduleAccelerator" (without the quotation marks) as the entry name, and then press ENTER.

5. On the "Edit" menu, click "Modify".

6. In the "Value data" box, type the value that you want, and then click "OK". To determine the polling interval, the value that is configured on the "Scheduling" tab in the GUI is divided by the value that you type for the ScheduleAccelerator entry. For example, if a 15 minute interval is specified in the GUI and you set the value of the ScheduleAccelerator entry to 3, the connector will poll ever five minutes.

7. Quit Registry Editor.