Bob Ammerman wrote:

 >"Outlook Express" is an POP/SMTP style email client. It comes free with
 >various flavors of Windows.
 >Plain "Outlook" is a much more elaborate program. In addition to POP/SMTP
 >email it can also serve as a client for exchange server. It also contains
 >calendar management, and a lot of other complicated, proprietary MS stuff.
 >It is not free.
 >"Exchange" is the piece that runs on the server.

Tal Dayan wrote:

 >Mike,
 >Looks like (and please correct me if I wrong) that Microsoft is using the
 >name Outlook for both the CLIENT product (the classical Outlook one runs
 >on her desktop) and for an Exchange SERVER component that serves email
 >using http/html interface.
 >This are two different products with similar names for marketing reasons,
 >one typically runs on a server and the other runs on a desktop (similar to
 >Mozilla).
 >To which of the two do you refer to ?

   I can't fully agree with Bob that both Outlooks are POP/SMTP style email
clients. Try add new account in MS Outlook 2002 (Express 6). It will
list http
server account among others to choose. Http-mail servers are meant to work
with mail in on-line mode (Yahoo, Hotmail and thousands others).
   The idea of choosing http server account in Outlook is that, you'll
be able to
work in off-line with your mail on http server. Outlook will get your
mail to your
local folders. I have my Outlook Express 6 set to my Hotmail account. It
works,
rather slowly, though. There is a rumour Outlooks can handle non-Hotmail
http
accounts, but I didn't check it.
   Why am I so worried about being able to work with my mail over http
in off-line
mode? I can't discuss this sort of question from POP3/SMTP account.
There are
some very-very specific issues one have to stick in when working with
POP3/SMTP mail in my country.
   Definitely, I'm going to post a question about quick http-mail
servers, located
somewhere over valleys and mountains. I know admins prefer POP3/SMTP
member's accounts rather then http. But some specific issues do really
exist.

   Mike. Ukraine.

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