AFAIK, the only email applications that exist on any platform which give "online access" to a POP server (a sort of "poor man's IMAP") are Outlook Express 5 for Mac and Entourage (all versions). Not even other Mac clients can do this. Nor can Outlook (PC or Mac). So it's not a case of Mac being best, nor Microsoft being best, but the Macintosh Business Unit of Microsoft being best - and unique.
Hmmmm, perhaps I am missing something here, but I use Outlook at work to access my mail via a MS exchange server. However, occasionally I need to also gather my home email during the workday — when I am selling something, for example — so I input the info for my home POP account via Outlook/Options and Outlook goes merrily ion gathering the Pop email for my home address as well as any email which I get at my work address. I use E-rage on OS 10.2.4 at home and outlook with Win XP Pro at work.
Exchange Server is a different matter - you're doing everything on it unless you expressly make a local .pst file on your computer. The Exchange Server is like an IMAP server in that way, except you're looking at calendar, tasks , address book and notes on the server as well as email messages. This has got nothing to do with being able to see your ISP's POP server. Outlook can't do that if you have it set up at home without an Exchange Server.
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Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html
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