Robert Wilkinson wrote: > Does anyone know of a better interface than Outlook Express and if so how do > I interface it to my current ISP. > > Or does anyone know of a free ISP that uses something different from Outlook > Express. > > Microsoft rules the World! But not my machine if I can help it..... > > Bob Wilkinson.
I asked roughly this question on comp.os.os2.networking.misc sometime last year, and got the following reply: > My company runs on Outlook (damn it, we switched from being a Mac > shop to a Wintel shop). At work, I ran Outlook98, but I can also > access my mail from Netscape mail (or PMMail/2). The mail from > StarOffice also works fine... > > I don't know if this will work for you (and my explainations may > sound a bit goofy, cause I don't understand Exchange): > > Your mail user name is the path to your Outlook mailbox. It'll be > something like: > nt_network/jbland/Joe_Bland > > and then your incoming mail server will be the NT Exchange server: > nt-exchange.mycompany.com I got Netscape to read the mail using this. I used settings like: Mail Server: server.company.com User Name: domain/fml/FirstL (where f, m & l mean first, middle and last initials) I had a little trouble finding the user name. When I looked up the setting in Outlook mail, it said "First Last" (with a space between), but when I used that in Netscape: User Name: domain/fml/First Last it didn't like it. I discovered that if I typed "FirstL" into the Outlook mail settings, it expanded it to "First Last", and also "FirstL" worked in Netscape. I assume that "FirstL" is the actual username, and "First Last" is a description. This might require a bit of experimentation. This worked fine for a while, but then the administrator changed something on the server. Now I have to enter a username and password to send mail. Also I have recently discovered that attachments do not seem to work. I would be interested to hear how you do with this. -- James Gasson
