POP3 / Exchange Server conflict

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Actually, if you carefully read that KB you cited you will see it never says
that C/W mode can or should install Exchange and POP3 accounts, it just
tells how to configure a POP3 account in C/W and cites other very similar
articles for Outlook 97 and 98.

If it worked for you great, your mileage may vary but that's not what MS was
recommending or almost anyone else.

 

[CMM]

Actually, if you carefully read that KB you cited you will see it never

says that C/W mode can or should install Exchange and POP3 accounts

In the same profile you mean?.... "Can?" No it doesn't say that because
it's obvious that it can be... just like any other service available at the
time like MSFax, VoiceMail, MS Phone, and any other service that could be
plugged into Outlook CW mode at the time. "Should?" Well, it doesn't
recommend against it. There's not the big "THIS IS AN UNSUPPORTED SOLUTION"
that MS sprinkles on ad-hoc after-market things.

Obviously the more robust solution for internet mail was IMO mode. But to
say that CW mode didn't support POP is plain wrong. That was the only point
I was trying to make.

--
-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com

Actually, if you carefully read that KB you cited you will see it never
says that C/W mode can or should install Exchange and POP3 accounts, it
just tells how to configure a POP3 account in C/W and cites other very
similar articles for Outlook 97 and 98.

If it worked for you great, your mileage may vary but that's not what MS
was recommending or almost anyone else.

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Aloha CMM,

That's absolutely not true!

It absolutely is true.

Gosh, I'm truly astonished.
Man, how'd you become an MVP?

Because she's good at this stuff and enjoys helping people.

Outlook 2000/98/97 "Corporate/Workgroup Mode" (a.k.a. MAPI/Exchange
mode)
absolutely supported POP in the same profile

I think you're misunderstanding what Lanwench is saying. It's not a matter
of the product being able to do it, it's a matter of Microsoft supporting
the configuration. Prior to OL2002 running Exchange and Internet Mail in
the same profile was technically possible but was not officially a supported
configuration. If you were to call PSS and ask them to help you with an
OL98 machine running the Exchange connector and a POP3 connector in the same
profile the first thing they would tell you is that they don't support that
configuration. They might humor you and try to get it working, because it
sometimes does, but it's not supported.

Just as running Outlook against a network-hosted PST file isn't a supported
configuration. Even though a lot of people do it with varying degrees of
success.


-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
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[CMM]

That's news to me. But, I defer to ya'll's expertise.
Looking back I remember I ran the Exchange account so it dl'd everything to
a PST. Perhaps that was the way to do it? I don't know. But, I definately
don't remember getting the sense that I was doing something
"unsupported".... I mean the Internet Mail Service came out-of-the-box and
it wasn't some aftermarket download like Power Toys or something. And, aside
from it not being particularly robust, it ran quite well. But, again, I
defer.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Don't you remember the IMEP?
The Internet Mail Service "out of the box" didn't even function until that
patch was downloaded and applied. Even after the patch was applied, I
wouldn't characterize it as "running well." All other Outlook and operating
system activity had to cease during each mail poll.

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Aloha CMM,

Oh, I'll agree that it often worked - in fact I did it a bit myself - but
it didn't always work. And my colleagues in Redmond would probably have
shrugged and smiled if I asked for assistance with that kind of configuration.


That's one of the great things about technology -- people are always finding
ways to do things with it that the designers didn't intend, never expected
or figured couldn't be done.

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenote.html

 

[CMM]

Truth be told I don't see what the big deal is. It's not like POP is rocket
science.
What's funny is that I think I have more problems with POP in OL2003 than I
ever did in Outlook 2000 (and before).

And again, in response to your message, I'd reiterate that I don't remember
the configuration ever being discouraged... much less one the designers
"didn't intend, never expected or figured couldn't be done." One of the
major selling points of Outlook was the notion of the Universal Inbox. It
was the main reason folks like me gravitated to it.

If it was indeed "unsupported" I've been under the wrong impression for many
years now... and I feel a bit stupid. :-(