I think I probably erred in two respects in my prior post:

1: apparently Outlook Express v6 does some things that I was not aware of
(although I have that version and I don't see how to configure non-SMTP
servers. Perhaps he is seeing that choice because of some other piece of
installed software. I really don't know.

2: there is indeed a third member of the Outlook family which runs on the
server and allows access to Exchange accounts over HTTP via the web.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Singer" <mike@poluostrov.net>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: [OT]: Browsers


>   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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