Office Email system without using exchange

[richj55]

My company has about 60 computers operating on the NT environment. We currently do not have an internal email system, but would like to develop one. We use Outlook Express for internet email and all computers have Microsoft Office installed on them, inlcuding Outlook. We would like to have a global address book from which to pull email addresses. We would also like to have a shared calendar that could be accessed by all users, but not replace their individual calendars. Is any of this possible without Exchange? We do not want to invest in a new server and Exchange.

Thanks,

Rich

 

[CMASPE]

Any big reason why you don't want to get exchange?....oh it's MS..nevermind. I use iMAIL and love it.

http://www.ipswitch.com

You can setup net folders to share a "company calendar" that will be hosted on one server or machine. Netfolders is eliminated in XP office for a reason though..it is kind of buggy. It either works great or it doesn't. I use it at my office and everything is great but I have a client that I can not get half of the people to work right. Check out some calendar sharing options at zdnet. Hope this helps

 

[richj55]

Thanks for the information on imail, but I like the all-in-one features of Outlook. Does Microsoft Mail still exist? Is there any email system that will work with Outlook?

Thanks,

Rich