Use Outlook With SQL Server 7!

[Arpan]

I have recently installed MS-Outloook 2000 in my Win 2000 Professional
system. I want Outlook to be the default mail client so that I can send
mails from SQL Server 7 but when I start Outlook for the 1st time after
installing it, I am facing problems.

As soon as I start Outlook, the 1st step gives 2 options to select from
-Microsoft Exchange Server & Internet Email.Since I want to use Outlook
solely for sending mails from SQL Server, I select the former. The next
step prompts me to enter the MS-Exchange Server & the Mailbox. This is
where I am getting stuck. What do I enter as the MS-Exchange Server &
the Mailbox? How or where from do I get these 2 bits of information?

If I select Internet E-mail instead of Microsoft Exchange Server at the
first step, the next step requires me to enter the POP3 & SMTP servers
apart from other details. Now Outlook Express 6 in my m/c is configured
to my Hotmail account but the same can't be done in Outlook coz Hotmail
uses HTTP, not POP3 & Outlook doesn't support the HTTP protocol.

How do I configure Outlook 2K so that I can use it to send emails from
SQL Server 7?

Thanks,

Arpan

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

what os? if winxp, you can set up a smtp server on it to use... otherwise,
doesn't your isp offer SMTP? (use localhost or something for pop3 and set it
to never check mail)

BTW - if you have any version of 2000 above SP1, you'll have dialogs to
reply to before it;'ll accept mail from sql. see
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm



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