This is what is happening:
 
Currently our office has internal (Imail) and External(Dial on Demand, ISP) service. We want email addi's to stay the same, and temporarily use the two systems until we merge to a completely Imail system. Those with External email use Outlook 97 so what I have done is put SP2b on the system and loaded up a second internet service for IMAIL I placed IMAIL as the primary service to send all smtp mail thru imail and have the imail server dial up once every hour and send email to the world. the secondary service (ISP) mearly checks for new mail on the ISP service. For all intensive purposes this should work, but it doesn't.
 
I am not sure what is happening but on some machines Outlook cannot figure out that the pop3 for the ISP is located on the internet, it continually tries to look on our network for the pop server wich naturally fails. I don't know if there is an easier way to do this or not but I am looking for suggestions, horror stories, successes in this type of band-aid solution.
 
Now I know this is only a temporary thing but I cannot kick our ppl off the internet until we get our Dedicated internet connection. I need something in the interm.

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