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Hi, I have a user that access our mail system by pop3. A user that
is
in my domain has shared a calendar and chose that pop3 user to have
permissions to review. Can the pop3 user pull up the calendar even
though he's not on Exchange in our domain? thank you.
Calendarying, journeling, notes, or other email unrelated tasks are
not part of POP3 (Post Office Protocol version 3). POP3 knows how to
poll and retrieve text items in a mailbox (and only from the one
mailbox and not from other server-side defined folders).
You will need to provide full access to whatever server provides the
calendaring function that you want to share. In your network, that
means your user needs access to Exchange *if* that is the unnamed mail
server that you use. If the user is off-site, arrange to let them
connect securely to your corporate network using VPN.
Rather than give the external user access only to a POP3 gateway to
your mail server (Exchange maybe?), enable Outlook Web Access (OWA in
Exchange) and have your external user access their mailbox using a web
browser. According to
http://www.amset.info/outlook/shared-folders.asp, shared calendars can
be accessed via OWA.
