Uber-Geeks Please Read: Adding IMAP to work Outlook when IT don't want me to. How?

AJP558

Just be glad you can use Webmail. For now at least. Many companies are increasingly wising up to this and blocking Webmail sites to stop employees "wasting" time on personal matters.

AJP

scheming_gypsy

Your mail server also needs to have the IMAP service running. You could try as many ways around it as you like but if that service ain't running on the server then there's no point trying.

cosmokramer2004

alexjohnson wrote:

work uses Exchange Server.

Ooph, I completely missed that part of your post! Why not just add the Exchange server as a mail account in Outlook?

To do so, go to Control Panel >> Mail >> Email Accounts >> Add a new email account >> Microsoft Exchange Server >> Enter your username/mailbox name and server address..

scheming_gypsy

alexjohnson wrote:

My mail server? I don't understand. Do you mean my email provider's server? Erm, of course...?

No i mean your company's mail server. they'll have a server which connects to the internet and collects the email for the @companyname.com. Exchange then sorts it out and puts it into each individual users 'mailbox'.

We don't use Exchange but Mailtraq and I deal with the mail server. Last year we had departments who needed to share mail so we set them up using IMAP and a central email account. Even though we / they could set up an IMAP account on their local PC they couldn't get anything back from the mail server until we started the IMAP service running on Mailtraq.
So, if your company aren't running the IMAP service you'll never be able setup an account you can use.

unless i've missed something you put in your original post and got hold of the wrong end of the stick, which i'm quite good at.