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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Can other workers be instructed to write you at a non-work email address? 
Then you could use any of the free webmails, such as fastmail.fm .

If I had to use Outlook for mails I would go back to phoning.

Sindi

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Rob Heard wrote:

> Hi.  I hope someone can help me.  My work is in the process of
> changing to a Microsoft Exchange email server.  Once this is done
> there will be no access to work emails except by using Microsoft
> Outlook.  They told me all incoming emails will be automatically sent
> from the IMAP server to the Microsoft Exchange server.  Outgoing
> emails will still be sent via the IMAP server, so other email programs
> can send emails but not receive them.  The IT crew at work have all
> become Microsoft acolytes, and appear to have absorbed its
> monopolistic approach.  To ensure other programs can't be used to
> receive emails they've disabled the automatic forward feature on
> Outlook, "for security reasons".
>
> Does anyone know of a way of getting emails from an Exchange server
> without using Outlook?  I currently use DOS, unix/linux and, where
> necessary, Win98 and XP.
>
> I've always enjoyed emailing up till now, but if I have to use Outlook
> I'll feel unclean.
>
>
> Rob Heard
>
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