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POP Client Configuration
Here are the steps to configure Outlook
XP as a POP client.
This is not the supported configuration
for Exchange Hosting Service. To get the most out of
Outlook and the Exchange server, you must configure
Outlook as an Exchange client. Despite that, some people
insist on configuring Outlook as an old-fashioned POP
client, as if all they had was a primitive UNIX Internet
email server. Exchange does support the POP protocol,
mainly for backwards compatibility.
The following screen shots and
step-by-step directions are based on Outlook XP. Outlook
2000 configuration is somewhat different, but you will
find the critical information you need below, such as
server names and security requirements.
Right click the Outlook icon on the
desktop to get the following dialog, or choose the Mail
icon from Control Panel.
Click Show Profiles, the following
dialog will appear.
Click Add.
Give it a name and click OK.
Verify that Add a new email account is
selected and click Next.
Choose POP3 and click Next. (Note that
you could choose IMAP. IMAP is more advanced than POP3,
and our servers do support that protocol.)
Fill in your settings. Server name is
mail.junctionbox.net for incoming and outgoing. Fill in
your Display name, and your username, as provided by
Exchange Hosting Service and fill in your password. (You
must fill in the password for Test Account Settings
feature to work successfully.) Click the More Settings
button to display these important additional settings.
You don't need to change anything on the
General tab, click the Outgoing server tab.
On the Outgoing Server tab, click to
select My outgoing server requires authentication.
Exchange Hosting Service servers absolutely do require
authentication. Failure to check this box will prevent
you from being able to send outgoing mail.
Your settings on this tab will depend on
your internet connection.
On the Advanced tab, click to select the
box to Leave a copy of messages on the server. This way,
the POP client will not delete everything from your
server-based inbox. If you fail to check this box, it
will delete everything from your inbox on the server
after downloading it to a .pst file your hard disk.
Next click the Test Account Settings
button. The following dialog will appear. If you have
configured everything correctly, it should look like
this one, with green check marks indicating success.
Click finish on the wizard to get back
to the Show Profiles dialog where you started. Click the
drop down list and tell Outlook to use your new profile.
Click OK and Start Outlook.
Once again, this is not the supported
configuration, and will not allow you to use the
powerful collaboration features of Exchange to share
contacts, calendars, public folders and everything else
with your colleagues.
See our Outlook tech support pages for
how to configure Outlook as an Exchange client, instead
of a simple POP client.
If you have Outlook Express or an older
version of Outlook, or another POP email software, the
steps should be similar to those shown
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