OT - 2003 Server and Pop mail

MoFunk

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It has been a LONG day, and I have done a small search, but figured I would look here for an easy way to get info.

Does anyone have some links that they can post to help me set up server 2003 as a pop mail server. But can you also answer if it will do what I am wanting. This is for my home to start, but also a friends small business if I can get it to work.

Home - I have 3 domains, none are hosted locally, all have numerous pop mail accounts. I use Outlook 2003. Now what is going on is that I have 5 computers in the house that I use often depending where I am at. I can share the outlook data directory, but if I have outlook open on a system I am stuck with TS into it, and sometime that is not an option if my wife is on the computer. If I set up the server for pop mail, can it be used sort of like exchange and allow me to access that file regardless of where I am at and also let me in even if another system has outlook up?

Friends Business - Basically the same as my house. He wants to be able to move back and forth between 2-3 pc's and always have access to his e-amil and not have to worry about closing outlook each time.

Thanks for any help to lead me in the right direction.
 

Zbox

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you would need to set something up like an IMAP server configured with remote accounts (merak/visnetic works great for this sort of thing) to collect the mail from the external pop3 servers

then internally configure your outlook clients to look to the local IMAP server...