The visual complexity of modern email clients such as Outlook Express hides the simplicity of the underlying protocols that they use. If you know a few simple protocol commands it’s possible to send and receive emails via an Exchange Server with no GUI client whatsoever, if you have access to a telnet client.
Those of you who have rebooted their connector servers or experienced a performance hit with message conversions already know what I’m talking about. Those considering a migration to Exchange from cc:mail or Lotus Notes in particular should pay close attention.
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