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TIP: Using WinFax PRO to make Exchange and POP accounts coexist
Outlook MVP Ken Slovak reports that, if you have WinFax Pro installed, you can tinker with the Outlook profiles in such a way as to make POP accounts and an Exchange Server mailbox work better inside the same pre-Outlook 2002 profile. This applies, of course, only to Outlook in Corporate Workgroup mode, since Internet Mail Only mode doesn't support Exchange Server or use profiles.

Ken writes:

When you have POP3 accounts in an Exchange profile you can get unwanted results when you check the current user's email address with the NameSpace.CurrentUser.Address. In particular, you may get the address from a POP account, rather than the Exchange address. There can also be other unwanted interactions when you have a POP3 account enabled with an Exchange profile.

If you are using WinFax Pro, you can take advantage of some undocumented behavior of MAPI profiles:

  1. Set up a profile that includes both an Exchange account and one or more POP3 accounts. Make the default delivery point of that profile the Exchange mailbox.
  2. Make that first profile the default profile for WinFax.
  3. Set up an Exchange-only profile, and make it the default profile for Outlook.
  4. Log into Outlook using the second, Exchange-only profile.
  5. Start WinFax Pro.

With this configuration, mail messages from the POP account will automatically be delivered to the Exchange mailbox, but the information from NameSpace.CurrentUser will be the Exchange information. You should also be able to avoid some of the other side effects of having mixed POP3 and Exchange accounts.

More Information
  • WinFax PRO 9 and Microsoft Outlook Integration
  • WinFax PRO 8.0 and Microsoft Outlook
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    WinFax PRO 10 also integrates OK with Outlook, along the lines of WinFax PRO 9, but it will be the last WinFax version.

    Updated Apr 09 2008
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