Standalone fax users have many choices today, both in add-ins for Microsoft Outlook/Exchange and in alternative Internet faxing services. Why wrestle with a fax modem and tie up your telephone line when you can receive faxes for free via e-mail and send faxes via the Internet at little or no cost? Rates tend to be
Personal and Group Fax Services
Standalone fax users have many choices today, both in add-ins for Outlook/Exchange and in alternative Internet faxing services. Most of the programs listed here do not work with Outlook 98 or Outlook 2000 in Internet Mail Only mode. The exceptions, WinFax and BitWare, are noted. See Internet Fax for services you can use to send
Group Internet Mail Services
As you probably know, Outlook doesn’t offer a mechanism to schedule Internet mail downloads for a particular time every day -- like just before you get into the office. A locally installed POP server solves this problem, because it does support scheduled connections. It downloads the mail to my server’s hard drive -- usually faster
LDAP Services for Outlook
If you have Windows Server running on your LAN, you can configure Active Directory, which supports LDAP right out of the box. See How to Configure Address Book to Query Users in Active Directory for details on how to configure Outlook; follow the instructions in the Downlevel Client Considerations with the Address Book section to
Voice Mail Services
In a sense, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange can treat voice mail as just another form of e-mail, delivering messages to the Inbox. Dialing calls from Outlook requires either a voice-enabled modem or TAPI driver that supports your internet connection. Personal Voice Mail Services Whether or not you can receive voice mail directly on your