Outlook 2003 and Microsoft Mail

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Sam Rodar

I know that Outlook 2003 does not work with Microsoft Mail. Just wondering
if anyone knows of a workaround or third party program that would allow
Outlook 2003 to work with Mail? I have a customer with one user in their
office using Outlook 2003 and all the others still using Outlook 2000.
They are also using Microsoft Mail for inte-office e-mail and would like, if
possible, for the upgraded user to still use Microsoft Mail as well.

Thanks.

Sam
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/msmail.htm should help.

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After furious head scratching, Sam Rodar asked:

| I know that Outlook 2003 does not work with Microsoft Mail. Just
| wondering if anyone knows of a workaround or third party program that
| would allow Outlook 2003 to work with Mail? I have a customer with
| one user in their office using Outlook 2003 and all the others still
| using Outlook 2000.
| They are also using Microsoft Mail for inte-office e-mail and would
| like, if possible, for the upgraded user to still use Microsoft Mail
| as well.
|
| Thanks.
|
| Sam
 
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Sam Rodar

Thanks Milly. That looks like it will work. Will post back if I have any
problems

Sam

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/msmail.htm should help.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
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After furious head scratching, Sam Rodar asked:

| I know that Outlook 2003 does not work with Microsoft Mail. Just
| wondering if anyone knows of a workaround or third party program that
| would allow Outlook 2003 to work with Mail? I have a customer with
| one user in their office using Outlook 2003 and all the others still
| using Outlook 2000.
| They are also using Microsoft Mail for inte-office e-mail and would
| like, if possible, for the upgraded user to still use Microsoft Mail
| as well.
|
| Thanks.
|
| Sam
 
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

In
Sam Rodar said:
I know that Outlook 2003 does not work with Microsoft Mail. Just
wondering if anyone knows of a workaround or third party program that
would allow Outlook 2003 to work with Mail? I have a customer with
one user in their office using Outlook 2003 and all the others still
using Outlook 2000. They are also using Microsoft Mail for inte-office
e-mail and would
like, if possible, for the upgraded user to still use Microsoft Mail
as well.
Thanks.

Sam

In addition to Milly's reply, I don't know what your line of business is,
but if it's at all in the IT way, note that you might do this customer a
great service if you were to gently suggest that they stop using archaic,
unsupported technology for something as important as e-mail. If they are a
small shop, Small Business Server 2003 might be a very good fit for them. If
I were to go into a shop still relying on OL2000 and MS Mail, the first
thing I'd do is write up a proposal to get rid of both!
 
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Milly Staples - MVP Outlook

My organization (government agency) still uses NT 4 servers and probably
will for some time to come.

If it works for them, let them continue to use it. Just because something
is archaic and unsupported is not a reason to automatically upgrade.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] asked:

| In | Sam Rodar <[email protected]> typed:
|| I know that Outlook 2003 does not work with Microsoft Mail. Just
|| wondering if anyone knows of a workaround or third party program that
|| would allow Outlook 2003 to work with Mail? I have a customer with
|| one user in their office using Outlook 2003 and all the others still
|| using Outlook 2000. They are also using Microsoft Mail for
|| inte-office e-mail and would
|| like, if possible, for the upgraded user to still use Microsoft Mail
|| as well.
|| Thanks.
||
|| Sam
|
| In addition to Milly's reply, I don't know what your line of business
| is, but if it's at all in the IT way, note that you might do this
| customer a great service if you were to gently suggest that they stop
| using archaic, unsupported technology for something as important as
| e-mail. If they are a small shop, Small Business Server 2003 might be
| a very good fit for them. If I were to go into a shop still relying
| on OL2000 and MS Mail, the first thing I'd do is write up a proposal
| to get rid of both!
 
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

In
Milly Staples - MVP Outlook said:
My organization (government agency) still uses NT 4 servers and
probably will for some time to come.

If it works for them, let them continue to use it. Just because
something is archaic and unsupported is not a reason to automatically
upgrade.

I don't think that's a reasonable analogy. MS Mail was cruddy when it *was*
supported....and I suspect there are reasons that a gov't agency might not
upgrade (scope of project, and red tape) that likely don't apply to a small
business, even one on a limited budget. I also imagine that a government
agency has a teensy bit more skilled tech/engineering support available to
it on a fulltime basis, than does a mom & pop operation.

And no, I don't think SBS will work
for you, Milly. ;-)
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

"I also imagine that a government agency has a teensy bit more skilled tech/engineering support available to it on a fulltime basis, than does a mom & pop operation."

Please don't let Neo see this from you - I can hear the laughter already!

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] asked:

| In | Milly Staples - MVP Outlook
| <[email protected]> typed:
|| My organization (government agency) still uses NT 4 servers and
|| probably will for some time to come.
||
|| If it works for them, let them continue to use it. Just because
|| something is archaic and unsupported is not a reason to automatically
|| upgrade.
|
| I don't think that's a reasonable analogy. MS Mail was cruddy when it
| *was* supported....and I suspect there are reasons that a gov't
| agency might not upgrade (scope of project, and red tape) that likely
| don't apply to a small business, even one on a limited budget. I also
| imagine that a government agency has a teensy bit more skilled
| tech/engineering support available to it on a fulltime basis, than
| does a mom & pop operation.
|
| And no, I don't think SBS will work
| for you, Milly. ;-)
|
|
||
||
||| In ||| Sam Rodar <[email protected]> typed:
|||| I know that Outlook 2003 does not work with Microsoft Mail. Just
|||| wondering if anyone knows of a workaround or third party program
|||| that would allow Outlook 2003 to work with Mail? I have a customer
|||| with one user in their office using Outlook 2003 and all the others
|||| still using Outlook 2000. They are also using Microsoft Mail for
|||| inte-office e-mail and would
|||| like, if possible, for the upgraded user to still use Microsoft
|||| Mail as well.
|||| Thanks.
||||
|||| Sam
|||
||| In addition to Milly's reply, I don't know what your line of
||| business is, but if it's at all in the IT way, note that you might
||| do this customer a great service if you were to gently suggest that
||| they stop using archaic, unsupported technology for something as
||| important as e-mail. If they are a small shop, Small Business
||| Server 2003 might be a very good fit for them. If I were to go into
||| a shop still relying on OL2000 and MS Mail, the first thing I'd do
||| is write up a proposal to get rid of both!
 
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

In
Milly Staples said:
"I also imagine that a government agency has a teensy bit more
skilled tech/engineering support available to it on a fulltime basis,
than does a mom & pop operation."

Please don't let Neo see this from you - I can hear the laughter
already!

OK, OK, "warm bodies," then!
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] asked:
In Milly Staples - MVP Outlook


I don't think that's a reasonable analogy. MS Mail was cruddy when it
*was* supported....and I suspect there are reasons that a gov't
agency might not upgrade (scope of project, and red tape) that likely
don't apply to a small business, even one on a limited budget. I also
imagine that a government agency has a teensy bit more skilled
tech/engineering support available to it on a fulltime basis, than
does a mom & pop operation.

And no, I don't think SBS will work
for you, Milly. ;-)
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Nah, just drop the "skilled"!

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
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After furious head scratching, Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] asked:

| In | Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
| <[email protected]> typed:
|| "I also imagine that a government agency has a teensy bit more
|| skilled tech/engineering support available to it on a fulltime basis,
|| than does a mom & pop operation."
||
|| Please don't let Neo see this from you - I can hear the laughter
|| already!
|
| OK, OK, "warm bodies," then!
|
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] asked:
||
||| In ||| Milly Staples - MVP Outlook
||| <[email protected]> typed:
|||| My organization (government agency) still uses NT 4 servers and
|||| probably will for some time to come.
||||
|||| If it works for them, let them continue to use it. Just because
|||| something is archaic and unsupported is not a reason to
|||| automatically upgrade.
|||
||| I don't think that's a reasonable analogy. MS Mail was cruddy when
||| it *was* supported....and I suspect there are reasons that a gov't
||| agency might not upgrade (scope of project, and red tape) that
||| likely don't apply to a small business, even one on a limited
||| budget. I also imagine that a government agency has a teensy bit
||| more skilled tech/engineering support available to it on a fulltime
||| basis, than does a mom & pop operation.
|||
||| And no, I don't think SBS will work
||| for you, Milly. ;-)
|||
|||
||||
||||
||||| In ||||| Sam Rodar <[email protected]> typed:
|||||| I know that Outlook 2003 does not work with Microsoft Mail. Just
|||||| wondering if anyone knows of a workaround or third party program
|||||| that would allow Outlook 2003 to work with Mail? I have a
|||||| customer with one user in their office using Outlook 2003 and
|||||| all the others still using Outlook 2000. They are also using
|||||| Microsoft Mail for inte-office e-mail and would
|||||| like, if possible, for the upgraded user to still use Microsoft
|||||| Mail as well.
|||||| Thanks.
||||||
|||||| Sam
|||||
||||| In addition to Milly's reply, I don't know what your line of
||||| business is, but if it's at all in the IT way, note that you might
||||| do this customer a great service if you were to gently suggest
||||| that they stop using archaic, unsupported technology for
||||| something as important as e-mail. If they are a small shop, Small
||||| Business Server 2003 might be a very good fit for them. If I were
||||| to go into a shop still relying on OL2000 and MS Mail, the first
||||| thing I'd do is write up a proposal to get rid of both!
 

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