Outlook 2002 on WinXP laptop through Cisco VPN software ha..

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Try posting this in one of the Outlook or Exchange groups...
Outlook/Exchange interop can be fairly tricky and there may be a
misconfiguration on the server side that could be causing the issue
you describe.

Jeffrey Randow (Windows Net. & Smart Display MVP)
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On 13 May 2004 21:25:23 -0700, matt@elusiveracing.com (Matt Jenkins)
wrote:

>Hi -
>
>I use a laptop and VPN software to establish a connection to my work
>in order to use email (Outlook client using exchange email). I am on
>Adelphia Powlink high speed internet.
>
>I'm using Outlook 2002 mail client (even upgraded to 2003 but still
>didn't work) on a WinXP laptop (SP1) using a Cisco VPN software
>version 3.x. I am having problems with the connection to the exchange
>server. I'm not certain what version of exchange is on the back-end
>server. Email seems to work slowly sometimes and not at all at
>others.
>
>The VPN connection is established just fine. Internal websites within
>the VPN work fine. As soon as I try to send and receive email
>messages, WinXP alerts pop up and say that Outlook is trying to
>receive information from the exchange server. Then the connection to
>the exchange server is lost and re-established at random. Every once
>in a while a message will come in or go out. So it isn't completely
>*broken*.
>
>Dial-up works fine for the email services. Personal firewall is
>turned off. No routers or hubs or other software firewalls are in
>use. Also, it seems that when I travel and stay in hotels around the
>country with high speed internet services, it works just fine.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Matt