Outlook without Exchange

[mjc]

Is it possible to have users on a network (Windows NT 2000 server or peer to peer) use Outlook and send emails to each other, view calendars, send and receive internet email and all the other Outlook stuff without MS Exchange.

I have had a lot of success with OfficeTalk (

http://www.sareen.com)

It works with MS SQL, SqlAnywhere and Jet databases and ever on peer to peer networks "out of the box".

However I have a client who wishes to "stick with Microsoft" but with less than 10 PCs recommending an Exchange setup and all the additional overhead of the required admin seem over the top.

Thanks for any help

 

[paulwood]

Take a look at netMailshar at filedudes, you can download an eval

http://filedudes.compsoc.com/win95/emailser/netmlshr.html

it can get external email or can act as an internal post office. You can use POP3 clients so even Outlook Express will work with it.

 

[cgwright]

For a local email server, I would recommend VPOP3 (

http://www.pscs.co.uk)

for a very reasonably priced product that is highly capable and easy to set up.

You need to understand though, that an email server will not allow you to do "all the other Outlook stuff". Things like calendars and shared folders are proprietary, and only seem to work with MS Exchange. If there's a way of doing those features with a smaller footprint solution than Exchange, I'd like to know about it We have Exchange 5.5 for 10 PCs, and it is much more complex than ever we need...

HTH