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Fixed POP3 Service after Exchange 2013 CU6

In a previous post I wrote about my Exchange 2013 CU6 Adventure and how it caused my Exchange Replication Services to crash.

That wasn’t the only issues faced after updating to CU6.  It seems that the CU6 upgrade had crippled my ability to use the POP3 service.

I have been waiting for a week now for Microsoft to get back to me regarding a solution.  But I was able to find one else ware thanks to Jason (Izzy) Sherry’s Blog Post: Exchange 2013 POP3 service drops connections fix

Symptoms:

  • Exchange 2013 POP3 request fail from remote hosts
  • Exchange 2013 POP3 request respond from localhost

Troubleshooting Steps:

  • Restart POP3 and POP3 Back-end Services
  • Reconfigure Exchange POP3 Local IP Address
  • Check server for firewall
  • Check if 3rd party antivirus may be intercepting POP3 requests
  • Inspect traffic using Wireshark

Solution Steps Followed:

In Exchange Powershell type:
Get-ServerComponentstate -Identity SERVERNAME

This will list the Server Component States

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

 

Now that you have identified the issue; as you can see POPProxy is set to Inactive we need to now set it back to Active

So we issue the following command:

Set-ServerComponentState -Identity SERVERNAME -Component PopProxy -Requester HealthAPI -State Active

As soon as you do this the POP3 Service start to respond again.

Problem now fixed, cause is still unknown. The only thing known in my case is that this occurred after installing Exchange 2013 CU6

11 replies on “Fixed POP3 Service after Exchange 2013 CU6”

Come to think of it. We updated CU5 about 8 days before being told to update to CU6.
Its possible that the issue started in CU5 and we did not notice until after the CU6 update when facing a slew of other problems.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention

Awesome, thanks! 🙂

After having updated to CU6 (from RTM), noticed POP didn’t work anymore (and we updated 2 weeks ago) – so had a hard time finding out what caused the issue.

Cheers!

This solves after PopProxy component goes Active again, and service pop3 restarts.
But i’m still trying to find why this happens… 🙁
It is very weird, because I have very few clients using pop3 (10 max).
I’m on CU7, but happen before with CU5 and CU6.
Anyone ?!

That’s interesting I did not find this to be the case. The rollup update which broke the issue was completely repeatable in a test environment and the solution also.

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