Microsoft Mail-Exchange Problem

[rianeiromiron]

Hello all.

I've been asked to configure an internal mail service. I installed Microsoft Mail client on my Outlook 2000 Clients, but I have the following problem

1. If I configure Microsoft Mail in a POP3-only profile, mail to be sent to Internal Post Office Clients, are delivered and picked up just fine.

2. If I configure Microsoft Mail in a Exchange client profile, mails that are sent to Internal Post Office clients take hours to leave the Outbox. Eventually, they are sent but take "literally" hourse to go out, even though I press the Send/Receive button many times.. This isn't the case if I close Outlook, and then, open it again. When I do this, the message goes out the outbox in less than a minute..

Can anybody give me a hand here?

Thanks
Rianeiro

 

[zbnet]

Your terminology is confusing. Microsoft Mail is the very very old shared file postoffice product that predated even Exchange v4, which is even older than Exchange 5.5 (which is pretty old!).

Microsoft Mail was also the name for the basic mail client originally shipped with Windows NT. This was evolved into the Exchange Client, which itself is superseded by Outlook (97, 98 and then 2000).

Maybe you’re talking about the Mail profile in Control Panel? Depending on the services you load into the mail profile, Outlook can either work in IMO (Internet Mail only) mode, or Corporate mode. Corporate mode is the Microsoft Exchange service that connects Outlook 2000 to your central Exchange server via a MAPI mail connection, and is the only way to leverage the superior features of Exchange (collaborative tools like shared calendars, and all mail stored in the transaction logged single instance storage database on the server).

Outlook tends not to like working with both sets of services (IMO and Exchange) installed together, it gets confused about which one it should use by default.

 

[rianeiromiron]

Thanks for your answer, and sorry about my terminology.

Outlook 2000 gives you several options for mail clients;

Tools>Services>Add:
Personal Folders
Internet Mail
Personal Address book
Microsoft Mail

For Microsoft Mail clients, a Post Office must be installed somewhere in the network, with mailbox users defined.

The reason I'm using Microsoft Mail is because we do not have a budget to buy new software, so I have to do the best I can with the tools we have.

Thank you.... and I hope some further help.

 

[zbnet]

You've installed an MS Mail postoffice as your internal mail server? For production use?

Why now use a more up-to-date POP3 server product?

http://www.ipswitch.com/products/imail/index.asp

is just one of many; very affordable, supported, easy to confgure, functional.

If you absslutely don't have any money at all to spend on software (although I question whether that's really true - unless you're just running pirate copies of all your current software), then there are freeware POP3 servers out there to be found (Google is your friend), but remember there is no support with free software.

 

[rianeiromiron]

Thank you zbnet.

I work for a government agency (actually in a foreign consulate), so, getting money to buy things takes months to be approved. ALL of my software has been bought, no pirate soft. at all, it is forbidden by law.

Anyway, the problem was solved. I had a colleague of mine to configure an account (new profile). To my surprise, he had it working in his first attempt. Well, then I did my attempt too, but...... it didn't work. Then I realized that when configuring the account, he first configured the Microsoft Mail account, and then, the Exchange account. That was the mistery. So, after a week of googling it was solved by a change of order. Ja ja.

Thank you anyway. I guess I'll never know why it worked.