Can I use a POP3 account with Exchange Server?

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antmnz - 11 Jul 2005 10:51 GMT

I want to use a shared calendar with my family, to do this I believe we need
Exchange Server e-mail accounts, the MS Office 2003 help file made it sound
like it could use my POP3 account if I got the details from my ISP. We have
the same company providing us with e-mail accounts, but different ISP's as we
are in different countries.

Is it possible to use my POP3 account in conjunction with the Exchange
Server to share our calendars? If so, what details do I need to ask them for?

Currently we just have each other's calendars on our respective computers as
separate profiles, but we can't update them easily/in realt time...or can we?

Is there any other suggestions/ideas?

Thank you for your help, Sorry I don't know much!
Anthony

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Brian Tillman - 11 Jul 2005 14:22 GMT

> I want to use a shared calendar with my family, to do this I believe
> we need Exchange Server e-mail accounts, the MS Office 2003 help file
> made it sound like it could use my POP3 account if I got the details
> from my ISP. We have the same company providing us with e-mail
> accounts, but different ISP's as we are in different countries.

POP accounts won't allow calendar sharing. POP protocols deal with mail
items only. Exchange won't give you any advantage there. However, there
are ISPs that allow access to Exchange servers and one in particular didn't
look all that expensive: http://www.eoutlook.com/

> Currently we just have each other's calendars on our respective
> computers as separate profiles, but we can't update them easily/in
> realt time...or can we?

No, because you can't have a PST opened by more than one Outlook at any one
time.

> Is there any other suggestions/ideas?

See if something here helps: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm

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antmnz - 12 Jul 2005 00:59 GMT

Thank you very much, the slipstick site was very informative with some great
other ideas. You sure know your stuff

> > I want to use a shared calendar with my family, to do this I believe
> > we need Exchange Server e-mail accounts, the MS Office 2003 help file
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>
> See if something here helps: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm

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Brian Tillman - 12 Jul 2005 15:35 GMT

> Thank you very much, the slipstick site was very informative with
> some great other ideas. You sure know your stuff

Sometimes I'm just a parrot.

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boraCT - 06 Jul 2006 18:36 GMT

You can use outlook web access. A bit risky exposing your exchange server to
the internet but their are ways of proctecting it...

> I want to use a shared calendar with my family, to do this I believe we need
> Exchange Server e-mail accounts, the MS Office 2003 help file made it sound
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> Thank you for your help, Sorry I don't know much!
> Anthony

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