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Top Document: Win95 FAQ Part 10 of 14: Messaging/Exchange Previous Document: News Headers Next Document: 10.2. How do I send and receive... See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge The bloody thing comes with the operating system, for one, so it's free! Exchange acts as a front end for pretty much any mail client, so it lets the developers worry about mail delivery, while it worries about the interface. Basically, you start with four folders, and all your personal mail comes in your Inbox folder. Stuff you send stays in your Outbox folder until a "Delivery" happens, either when you select "Deliver now" or one of the Exchange clients (such as Internet Mail) decides it's time to deliver mail, scheduled in time intervals you can control. Within the Exchange window you can drag messages between folders, shared folders if available, or directories in Explorer. Another big reason: it's interface matches the Windows Explorer so closely. You can copy & paste messages between it and other Explorer windows. You don't need to learn a whole new interface just to use a second, or third mail system. Yet another big reason: You get all your mail in one place! Internet mail, CompuServe mail, faxes, MSN, MS-Mail, and whatever anyone else decides to make for it. All big apps that support MAPI (those with a "Send Mail..." menu in their File menus), even Win 3.1 apps, work with it. Send a Word document to your buddy at nowhere.com, without fussing with saving, running your other mail program, and attaching. Exchange also stores mail on the user's hard drive or Home directory, so the mail server need not be running to view mail. Many users and developers are just beginning to grasp what Exchange is capable of, and most of us make many, many, mistakes, and abandon it in favor of "standard" mail apps. Please don't give up; Exchange has serious potential, and many of the features you think are missing, might just be in there... maybe even improved on! User Contributions:Top Document: Win95 FAQ Part 10 of 14: Messaging/Exchange Previous Document: News Headers Next Document: 10.2. How do I send and receive... Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Part8 - Part9 - Part10 - Part11 - Part12 - Part13 - Part14 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: gordonf@intouch.bc.ca
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