Why is Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007 software recommended for use with IceMAIL?
Two features in Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007 provide dramatically improvements in the way Outlook communicates over the Internet to the IceMAIL Exchange servers. These features are “RPC over HTTP” and “Cached Mode Exchange”. Earlier versions of Outlook/Exchange do not have these features and will run slower when communicating with the IceMAIL servers of the Internet. Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007 provide complete email, calendar, contact, task, note, public folder and hundreds of additional features that go well beyond what the Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape, and other POP-only email software has. Many people run Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007 just to send/receive email from their POP or IMAP-based email accounts, however, without an Exchange server such as IceMAIL, you are using only a fraction of Outlook’s capabilities. Explanations are provided for RPC over HTTP and Cached Mode Exchange elsewhere in these FAQs.
