Configuring Incoming E-Mail in SharePoint 2010 without Active Directory or Exchange
Many people wonder (I used to as well) how to go about configuring SharePoint 2010 incoming e-mail support without Active Directory or Exchange. Not to worry, here is what you need to do. These are the steps to do that: In my environment, I had a standalone SharePoint 2010 Implementation on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with a Static IP address I had the SMTP Services enabled The server name was "demoserver" In the Central Administration, in the System Settings, in Incoming e-mail support, I gave demoserver.com as the e-mail id I went to the hosts file located in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc and placed an entry for the IP address with demoserver.com Then just make sure demoserver.com is pinging - it should now show the static ip of the current server To test this, configure incoming e-mail settings on a document library - for example shareddocs@demoserver.com Now - in your Outlook, configure POP and SMTP as demoserver.com or the machine's IP address -