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Yahoo, Outlook and an Exchange Sever? Some help please.

Sep 26, 2005 11:46PM PDT

I?m using Outlook express with my yahoo email address. I have set up various auto-respond messages and everything is working fine. But is there a way in which I can apply an exchange server to my email outlook settings? I don?t know too much in-depth info about exchange-servers, but I do know that it allows you to have outlook closed and still respond to emails with message rules, that is what I need. I have searched on the Internet for a few sites and came up with solutions, but unfortunately it does cost to use their services. I'd rather wait and see if there is a way of doing this free of charge? Can anyone give a possible solution for me?

Thanks!

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Exchange Server will come with manuals.
Sep 27, 2005 12:59AM PDT

Have you read them?

The "server" is not free so let's get that off the table if you thought that was a freebie.

Bob

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Re: yahoo, Outlook and Exchange Server
Sep 27, 2005 1:04AM PDT

Slick_renegate,

First of all: the subject line is about MS Outlook (part of MS Office) and the message is about Outlook Express (part of IE). That are very different programs.

Exchange Server is a Microsoft product, and it isn't free at all. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/howtobuy/pricing.mspx shows the small business server (of which it is a part) to be $599 for up to 5 clients, while the stand-alone version is $699. So I don't think this is the way to go. And - of course - you would need it to run, either on your PC or on a separate server in your home network, so it wouldn't have much advantages above your current solution, I'd say.

If you don't run an email-program on your computer (be it a free program or not) you can't expect it to do anything with email. So you really are dependent on an email-service provider if you want this done independently from your PC.

Search for a free one that does what you need or pay for it. And sorry, I don't have a free one for you ready to use.

Hope this helps.


Kees