What is Cached Mode Exchange?
Cached Mode Exchange is a feature of Outlook 2003/2007 that stores a copy of all your IceMAIL data onto your PC’s hard drive and synchronizes everything in the background with the Exchange servers. This means everything you do in Outlook runs as fast as possible without slowing down because of the Internet or a slower dial-up connection. When creating a new email, for example, pressing the Send button briefly stores the email in your Outbox and you can immediately go to another task within Outlook 2003/2007. The email will be submitted in the background within a couple of seconds. The same thing occurs whenever you access your email, calendars, notes, tasks, etc. If for whatever reason, your Internet connection is interrupted or running slow, all of your data is still available as it is stored (also called cached) on your local PC’s hard drive. When the Internet connection to IceMAIL is restored, your Outlook 2003/2007 will automatically re-synchronize to the Exchange servers, send any
