Setting Up E-mail Accounts and Connections

Outlook 2002 eliminates the frustrating split personality that plagued Outlook 98 and Outlook 2000. Configuring those earlier versions required that you make a choice between two modes—Corporate/Workgroup (CW) and Internet Mail Only (IMO)—with different menus, feature sets, and options for each one. In Outlook 2002, the confusing CW/IMO split is gone. You can connect to any combination of accounts from any supported mail server, including Internet-standard (SMTP/POP3/IMAP) accounts, Exchange Server mailboxes, Hotmail accounts, and older third-party servers with MAPI transports.

The first time you run Outlook 2002, it scans your system for compatible e-mail client software. If it finds a previous version ...

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