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Email Problems using microsoft exchange server

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by dgoldeng

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Issues with Exchange Server 2003 and Outlook 2003
Our office is running Windows Server 2003 Standard in a domain and we have Exchange Server 2003 Standard also. Our email is not housed in our office, it is still off-site and we connect via pop3 account. The Exchange Server was used to be able to share public folders.

Here's my problem. All of our office is using Outlook 2003 connected to the Exchange Server mailboxes. The pop3 client is also configured on their machines to send and receive mail. The pop3 account is set as the Default account among the two. 50% of the time that users either reply or forward emails, the email will switch to Microsoft Exchange Server and their email will never leave the office. Is there a way to fix this so that Outlook will always send and receive, reply and forward all mail strictly through the pop3 account and not switch to Microsoft Exchange server account.

This has drove me crazy for some time and I don't know how to fix it. Its like its got a mind of its own when it decides whether to reply or forward on the pop3 account instead of the Exhange Server account.

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by mr.wiz

You need to repost this in the question forum. Click the "Ask a question" link. More people looking for questions will look there. Unless, of course, you just want us to discuss your problem. :)

by deepsand

Try the "Questions" forum; the "Discussion" forum is for matters of general discussion, not specific problems in search of a solution.

Post problems such as this to the "Question" forum, rather than the "Discussion" forum. There are those who specifically seek out problems in need of a solution, and that's where they go to look for such.

Additionally there are the benefits that:

1) The "Questions" forum provides for your feedback, by way of your being able to mark "helpful" responses as such. This does not necessarily mean that a given response contained the complete solution to your problem, but only that it served to guide you toward it. This is intended to serve as an aid to those who may in the future have a problem similar to yours, so that they might have a ready source of reference available, thereby perhaps obviating the need for them to repeat questions previously asked and answered.

2) The revised TR makes it quite difficult to find both "Discussions" and "Questions" that have not had a fairly recent post, owing to some functions comingling them in the listings. By keeping each type in their respective forums, it is easier for all to find what they are looking for.

by now left tr

POP3 and Default Exchange Mailbox mode - why not just Default Mode?

Why not just set up the mailbox as POP3?

If you use public folders then this is working as designed.

Try Webmail?

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