Dave Smithz wrote:

Is it just me, but why is IMAP support so bad in Outlook. I need to
set up someone who just had a few PC's in their office (5 tops). Each
are running different versions of Outlook and they are very light
users of the PC to justify getting a server and supporting it.

We wanted to get the Contacts and emails synchronised so sending
email from 1 PC will show up on others and updating a contacts
details will show across the network.

IMAP folders contain only mail items. IMAP has no concept of "contacts".
Your Contacts are completely separate from the IMAP account, so there's no
way to share them via an IMAP server. You'll still need some tool as
outlined here to share them:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm

Surely this can be achieved in a ROBUST, way that is easy to use
without having to spend an arm and leg on server technology. That is
all we want and thought IMAP was the way, but we have many problems.
Any suggestions please! Surely many people have this setup working
somehow around the world.

Outlook Express does a better job at handling IMAP and it's also easier to
pass a WIndows Address Book file between systems to synchronize the contacts
it contains, in my opinion.
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Brian Tillman