Topic: Outlook 2000 and IMP?

[Cincron]

I can use the web based mail and send and recieve mail perfectly. I would also like to use this qmail/imp to send and recieve mail through Outlook 2000.

I did a search for this and see alot of differant answers, but most of them can already recieve mail with there outlook, I cannot. Did i set something up wrong? Do I have something configured wrong?

Any suggestions would be very helpful...

[Dan Brown]

I'm not sure I understand either your question or your problem.  Outlook is a mail client; IMP is another.  You wouldn't use both of them at the same time.

To set up outlook, you'd make a new mail account with your e-smith server's address for the incoming and outgoing mail server.  I'd advise using IMAP instead of POP to retrieve mail.

If this doesn't help, we'll need to know what's happening (with error messages, if any) to be able to help.

[Cincron]

I would rather use my Outlook 2000 to get my mail, but IMP is a nice feature when I am away from home. Also some of my friends that I would give e-mail to would enjoy IMP.


When I set up my account as either POP3 or IMAP it tells me...
"Could not fetch new Header in the inbox for mail.theburds.org. An unknown error has occurred."

When I set up an account with IMAP, Outlook 2000 sets up another INBOX.
Possibly I set this up IMAP wrong? I never used IMAP before, I have always just used pop3...

If this is qmail.... then why could I just not be able to Use pop3? I think that I would rather use pop3 than IMAP... as I said I think..


PS: Thank you Mr. Brown for you great IMP instructions on how to upgrade it. They were very helpful.

[Les Mikesell]

You have to configure Outlook for internet mail instead of enterprise (which actually means exchange...).   Either pop or imap should work.  It is normal for IMAP to create a new inbox for an IMAP connection - the messages remain stored on the server under IMAP.  There isn't much difference from the user side if you are always connected to the network.