Outlook 2000 in mixed environment

[Jeff Fink]

Know a tech working on a job where the customer has Exchange 5.5 SP3 running
in house and is using the ISP's mail server for SMTP/POP3 email. The tech
is trying to eliminate email on the Exchange server and use it only for
shared calendars and contacts.

Each user has Internet Email and Microsoft Exchange accounts in Outlook
2000. He swears that he's found an ordering mechanism and that he has the
internet SMTP server listed as the first priority. Anything else he should
be looking at?

Thanks,
-Jeff

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Did he say what ordering mechanism he found? Exchange likes to be first and
while it will work for at least a while, it's easily broken and Exchange
will take over sending, even if second.

I'm curious, why does the tech want to eliminate Exchange email?

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[Jeff Fink]

Did he say what ordering mechanism he found? Exchange likes to be first and
while it will work for at least a while, it's easily broken and Exchange
will take over sending, even if second.

Seems to me that given the SMTP protocol, it really wouldn't be Exchange
taking over, but rather Outlook deciding differently how to send email. I'm
not sure where he found the ordering but he specifically said it wasn't
under Tools -> Services. There was another list somewhere else. Afraid I
can't offer more as I don't use Outlook.

I'm curious, why does the tech want to eliminate Exchange email?

It sounds like there is some email feature at the ISP that Exchange 5.5
doesn't have (and they're not wanting to pay for the upgrade).

-Jeff