MS Outlook

It usually will not work. There are three issues.

Setting up Outlook is a matter of plugging in the ISP's server name, your mail name, etc. No problem unless your server needs a secure connection, in which case you may need to get a password from your ISP.

The harder issue is that most ISP's now have their mail servers reject incoming mail which is not either FROM someone in their domain (as evidenced by IP address), or TO someone in their domain. Unless your company happens to use the same ISP as you do at home, you may be out of luck.

The third issue is picking the identity to use when sending the mail. Putting a different address in the To field works only if your Exchange server recognizes your address. You may have to actually use a separate profile, the second one with NO Exchange component, to get it to work the way you want. If you do this, setting your SMTP server to your Exchange server address may do the job (since it recognizes your IP as one of its own, it should pass the traffic).

Hope this helps.

Ok - strange thing going on here, but i went through the office, and found that there are at least 7 out of the 12 employees here, that are actually able to send and recieve thier "remote" mail. i have checked their settings, and my settings and they are the same...i have root access on the network, but i dont have a way to log directly on to the server (cant get into server room). Any ideas?

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