Standard Internet E-Mail Clients

One of the goals of Exchange Server 2007 is to continue to comply with the standards being used by the Internet community. Because Exchange Server 2007 is compliant with several popular Internet protocols, it can be used as the messaging server for third-party e-mail clients, provided that the clients are also compliant with those protocols.

If you run third-party Internet e-mail client software as either a POP3 client or an IMAP4 client, you can use Exchange Server 2007 as your messaging server. Although Windows Mail is a Microsoft product, it is a good example of the type of software being discussed here. Windows Mail really has nothing specifically to do with Exchange Server; you could use it to get your e-mail ...

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