ISP Software and MS Outlook

[RacerGirl117]

The company I work for uses MS Outlook as their e-mail client. At home, I currently use America Online. I'm interested in finding an ISP with whom I can use Outlook as my e-mail client. Does anyone know of any such ISP's?

I've pretty much always used Outlook in my career and I really prefer it to any other e-mail/calendar/contact management software for personal use and would really like to get rid of my AOL accounts as I really don't use AOL except for e-mail purposes.

Thank you in advance,

Jessica Morgan
Fire Fighter Sales & Service Co.
Pittsburgh, PA

http://www.firefighter-pgh.com

 

[glifex]

Are you just looking to connect to your mail server at work?

 

[RacerGirl117]

No. I would like to be able to use Outlook for my work and home e-mail. Whether I'm connected at work or at home. I theoretically would have two e-mail accounts.

Also, I currently pay for my mother's AOL account as well and would like to convert her to the same ISP. She connects strictly through a dial-up connection.

Jessica Morgan
Fire Fighter Sales & Service Co.
Pittsburgh, PA

http://www.firefighter-pgh.com

 

[lanamater]

You can set up a POP account and an Exchange account within Outlook and have it check both accounts. Your ISP would need to be POP mail and your work email would probably require some sort of VPN to connect to their network if a firewall is in place.

This can be rather tedious and clunky. You might want to use OWA instead for work, but that is quite different from Outlook, being it is HTTP based.

 

[RacerGirl117]

I don't have a choice what I use at work. They provide us with Outlook...that's what we use. But rather than having two separate programs to check e-mail I'd like to be able to just do it all through Outlook.

When I'm at work, I don't want personal mail coming in through the mail server, so I may be best served just having an internet based mail service like Yahoo or something. I do work from home sometimes though, so it would be nice to check work e-mail from home. Kind of a double-edged sword here.

Jessica Morgan
Fire Fighter Sales & Service Co.
Pittsburgh, PA

http://www.firefighter-pgh.com

 

[lanamater]

Well you still may want to check with the IT group and see if they offer OWA. That comes with Exchange 2000 by default and is easily implemented. Then you could check email from home, albeit with a browser.

yahoo is the ticket.

 

[RacerGirl117]

I am the "IT" group...albeit not a very knowledgeable one. I'm the one in the office that everybody comes to when something's wrong with their computer so I've kinda been pushed into doing a lot of the basic computer stuff here.

I've been looking at several different ISP's and they all seem to have some sort of time constraint/limitation. I don't like being limited to how much time I can use, so that turns me off. I was about to check out Yahoo when I got interrupted. I'll see if they have any limitations.

Jessica Morgan
Fire Fighter Sales & Service Co.
Pittsburgh, PA

http://www.firefighter-pgh.com

 

[lanamater]

Uh- Sorry, no offense meant

What is you mail right now?

Are you using ISP with POP mail?

Or do you have a server running Exchange or some other sort of mail server?

You can use Outlook Express with multiple identities, but Outlook will allow multiple POP accounts. So any ISP you choose that has POP enabled mail should work.

Hope it helps.

 

[RacerGirl117]

We have an e-mail server running Exchange. How/where do I look to see if if POP is enabled?

I think I've pretty much decided on using SBC!Yahoo!Dial service. The service allows up to 10 sub-accounts and my mother and I can be online at the same time. My fiance could even use it now that his roommate made off with the computer they were sharing. I'll have to call and ask if their service is POP enabled.

Someone also mentioned the fact that most ISP's charge for simultaneous logon. Meaning that if my mother and I are logged on at the same time there is an extra charge. I'll have to ask about that as well.

Jessica Morgan
Fire Fighter Sales & Service Co.
Pittsburgh, PA

http://www.firefighter-pgh.com

 

[lanamater]

Is it Exchange 2000? or 5.5?

POP will show in the Services applet>right click My Computer>Manage>Expand Services and Applications>highlight Services

Then look under Microsoft Exchange POP. It is installed by default in Exchange 2000.

Yahoo has POP mail available for a fee. It runs around $20 per year.

Simultaneous logons would only apply if you both logon from different computers and not sure if they do actually charge for it.

 

[RacerGirl117]

I don't see anything that says POP in the Services listing. No Exchange or Outlook or anything.

Yahoo has a service called SBC!Yahoo!Dial. It's $15.95/month and they don't charge for simultaneous logon. And we do both logon on at the same time from different computers (hence why she has her own AOL account). I'm gonna go home and install it and give it a shot. Free trial for 30 days. It'll save me about $30/month.

Jessica Morgan
Fire Fighter Sales & Service Co.
Pittsburgh, PA

http://www.firefighter-pgh.com

 

[dput]

Most ISP's other than AOL use POP3. Your outlook should work fine with any of them other than AOL. You will not be able to use Outlook in exchange client mode. Your e-mail, contact list, etc. will be stored on your PC versus on the Exchange Server.

Dan