Can I use a POP3 account with Exchange Server?

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I want to use a shared calendar with my family, to do this I believe we need
Exchange Server e-mail accounts, the MS Office 2003 help file made it sound
like it could use my POP3 account if I got the details from my ISP. We have
the same company providing us with e-mail accounts, but different ISP's as we
are in different countries.

Is it possible to use my POP3 account in conjunction with the Exchange
Server to share our calendars? If so, what details do I need to ask them for?

Currently we just have each other's calendars on our respective computers as
separate profiles, but we can't update them easily/in realt time...or can we?

Is there any other suggestions/ideas?

Thank you for your help, Sorry I don't know much!
Anthony
 
antmnz said:
I want to use a shared calendar with my family, to do this I believe
we need Exchange Server e-mail accounts, the MS Office 2003 help file
made it sound like it could use my POP3 account if I got the details
from my ISP. We have the same company providing us with e-mail
accounts, but different ISP's as we are in different countries.
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POP accounts won't allow calendar sharing. POP protocols deal with mail
items only. Exchange won't give you any advantage there. However, there
are ISPs that allow access to Exchange servers and one in particular didn't
look all that expensive: http://www.eoutlook.com/
Currently we just have each other's calendars on our respective
computers as separate profiles, but we can't update them easily/in
realt time...or can we?
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No, because you can't have a PST opened by more than one Outlook at any one
time.
Is there any other suggestions/ideas?
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See if something here helps: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm
 
Thank you very much, the slipstick site was very informative with some great
other ideas. You sure know your stuff
 
antmnz said:
Thank you very much, the slipstick site was very informative with
some great other ideas. You sure know your stuff
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Sometimes I'm just a parrot.
 
You can use outlook web access. A bit risky exposing your exchange server to
the internet but their are ways of proctecting it...
 
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