Exchange Server and Webmail

[bardsley at u.washington.edu]

Chris,

I have accessed Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 web based email accounts from computers that do not have Outlook or Outlook Express installed. In fact I have accessed the accounts from Macintosh computers. Something else is going on.

- Mark Bardsley

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Chris Murphy wrote:

> Occasionally, patrons on our public Internet stations report not being 
> able to access their web based email accounts at their 
> corporation/university/etc. In each case I've seen, the interface 
> appears to be with a Microsoft Exchange Server.
> 
> By policy, our public Internet stations do not permit access to 
> Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, and I am guessing the server 
> requires some form of Outlook be installed on the client computer.
> 
> Is this correct? We don't use MS Outlook, and our mail server uses 
> Linux, so I am inexperienced with Exchange servers and their 
> requirements for web access.
> 
> I see this problem only a handful of times per year, but if there is an 
> easy way to get around it without enabling Outlook, I would like to do so.
> 
> Any advice or tips will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
> -- 
> Christopher Murphy
> Information Systems Manager
> The Community Library, Ketchum, Idaho
> chrism at thecommunitylibrary.org
> http://www.thecommunitylibrary.org
> 
>