On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 07:41:32PM -0400, Robert Rossmoore wrote: > hi i have outlook and outlook express is there a way to use just outlook to > send and receve mail from that....please advise
Hard to be sure what you're asking, but I'll guess that the question is this (and if not maybe someone else will want to hear the answer ;-): "How can I read MS-Exchange mail using Debian Linux instead of MS-Exchange or Outlook clients?" The company I work for uses MS Exchange with most folks (except me :) using MS Exchange or MS Outlook clients. Our Exchange server supports POP3, so I just use fetchmail to download the mail to my Debian potato box (every 2 hours during the night, and every 10 minutes during work hours). For outgoing mail I use our standard SMTP mail host. For a mail client I use mutt. All works okay, except for some MS-specific stuff like .doc format attachments and the tnef mail format (vs. generic MIME). All these have turned out to be things that can be worked around 99.9% of the time with StarOffice, tnef2txt, etc. I can use a Win95 machine for the exception cases when all else fails. So ... see if your system has POP3 download capability and SMTP sending capability. If so you're in business and the details can be worked out. - Mike Touloumtzis P.S. - One reason I use this setup (besides generally preferring Linux) is that the mutt mail client makes reading mail lists like this one much easier that would be the case with the standard MS mail clients. -- Michael E. Touloumtzis Computer Associates International
