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How do I setup my Outlook 2000 on my home computer to access my company email mailbox on our internal Exchange Server 5.5 (NT4.0)?
I just want to read my email from home.
I will be accessing from home on our DSL, using MS-VPN Adapter.
What are the steps?

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by laurie

I am not sure if someone had sent an answer. You would have to make sure that your e-mail at home is set up to save messages on server, it will be in your advanced tab. Here is a simple setup.
Start Microsoft Outlook 2000.
Click on the Tools menu.
Click on Accounts.
Click on the Add button.
Click on Mail.
In the Display Name field enter your real name as you wish it to be displayed in the "From" field on your outgoing messages.
Click Next.
Enter your e-mail address as you wish it to be displayed on your outgoing messages. The Internet standard is to have your e-mail address entirely in lowercase.
Click Next.
Ensure that POP3 is selected from the drop-down box.
In the Incoming Mail field enter mail.domainname.com (eg. if your domain name is wintergreen.com, enter mail.wintergreen.com).
Enter the same in the Outgoing Mail field.
Click Next.
In the Account Name, enter the username provided to you (this can be found on your domain hosting invoice from us).
Ifyou want Outlook to remember your password so that you don't have to enter it every time you check mail, enter the password provided to you by us in the Password field and ensure that Remember Password is checked.
Click Next.
Select "I will establish my Internet connection manually."
Click Next.
Click Finish.
You have now setup your Microsoft Outlook 2000 to check mail on your domain name.

As an option, you can now click the Set as Default button to make this the default accounton your outgoing messages.
Click Close to return to Outlook.

by laurie

Again make sure that when you are in your internet mail accounts, and you go into properties, you will be looking at more than one tabs. Example; general, server, etc. Click into you advanced tab and down at the bottom of that page you should see "leave messages on the server." make sure that is checked. No matter where you are, you will be able to check your messages.

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