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[waytech2003]

We just upgraded our 4 computer small office to XP computers. (2 XP Pro, and 2 XP Home)

In our prior Win98-WinME setup we had been using outlook 2000 to send mail between ourselves. We had the old Win95 exchange loaded on the ME machine, and it work very well.

I find that the old software will not install on any XP machine. Does anyone know of a free or very cheep mail/postoffice program that will work with Outlook on XP's? We do not need it to serve out Internet mail, just interoffice mail.

 

[bcastner]

LanTalk:

http://www.cezeo.com/help/lantalk-xp/index.html

Quick Messenger:

http://pages.videotron.com/mmoose/

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[waytech2003]

bcastner

Thanks for the quick reply. I took a quick look at both of your suggestion. I do not think these will work with Outlook. From what I seen, they just allow messages between users, not regular emails. I need to keep using outlook in the system.

 

[smah]

Are you talking about Outlook Express or Outlook? You can still use the old Microsoft Mail PostOffice with Outlook 2000. If that's what you're referring to, you'll just need to keep a win9x machine to manage the PostOffice.

 

[waytech2003]

smah

Using Outlook 2000. Yes I know I can keep an old Win9x running as the exchange server, but I am trying to make something work on an all XP system.

thanks

 

[linney]

Do any of your old programs install if you use 98 Compatibility Mode etc?


Add MS Mail support to Outlook 2002

http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/msmail_xp.htm

InterOffice Mail.

http://www.google.com/search?q=inte...t:*&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=i...&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&sa=N&tab=wg

I don't know what is happening to the Google links, you may have to copy and paste them?

 

[smah]

waytech2003, in that case you'll need a third party 'pop3 mail server' that will run on xp. Search any of the common shareware sites.

I still recommend the old MS Mail Postoffice for small groups like this. You can keep the mail store on a share on one of the XP machines. The Win9x machine is only needed when setting up or configuring users. It's still one of the best solutions for a small group like this that already has Outlook.

 

[jrbarnett]

I've had very good results with vPop3 (

http://www.vpop3.co.uk),

very cheap and simple, and can run through a proxy server for picking up mail from external accounts.

John

 

[waytech2003]

Thanks for all the replies.

I will look into all links and suggestions

 

[wolluf]

http://www.janaserver.de/start.php?lang=en

 

[waytech2003]

wolluf

Thanks for this site. It looks like it will be exactly what I need!