Outside email accounts

[Cheryl Lane]

I purchased a large server and had Microsoft Exchange
2000 installed because I was advised that this was the
only way that I could share my Outlook Calendar with
others in my office. I hired an IT expert to configure
the server for me and was just advised that Microsoft
Exchange server is useless unless all of my email
accounts reside on the Exchange server. In order to
conduct my business, I must always have email accounts
residing on offsite servers and therefore I will never
have all of my email accounts residing on the exchange
server located in my office. Can this be true? Did I
just waste several thousand dollars purchasing a server
and software that I will never be able to use?
CAL

[Mark Arnold (MVP)]

"Cheryl Lane" <chery...@lanegroupusa.com> wrote:

Probably not.
Look at it another way. Tell us why you must have email accounts
residing on offsite servers, where those servers are and what those
servers are running.
I ask because Exchange has Outlook Web Access, IMAP, POP and with E2K3
Outlook using RPC's over HTTP so there's very little reason you can't
funnel everything into your exchange server and absolutley no reason
you can't access that server using a Web Browser, Outlook Express,
Eudora, Pegasus, Outlook XP anywhere on the planet 24/7.
I would imagine that you gave your IT expert a full list of
requirements, think of some questions about how you can channel all
external mail to these systems and then either put them to him, put
them to this group, or put them to me directly.

Mark Arnold MCSA MCSE MVP, ma...@mvps.org
FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exchange.htm &
http:http://www.swinc.com/resource/e2kfaq.htm