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The small business's guide to secure email Read more. Discover more ways Exchange can help your business Bump your email up to business class. It uses the domain name in your email address to find the server.

Only if Autodiscover fails will you be asked for the name of the Exchange server. They'll tell you the name of your Exchange server and help you set up Outlook. When you use an Exchange account, your email messages are delivered to and saved in your mailbox on the Exchange server. Your contacts and calendar are saved there, too. When your business or school sets up their Exchange server, they choose what method your Exchange account uses to access email on the server.

This will determine how your email works. Here are the possibilities - ask your business or school how your Exchange account is set up :. When you access or read your email, you aren't actually downloading or storing email on your mobile device; instead you're reading it from the Exchange Server. It allows you to access your email even when you're not connected to the Internet.

When you read an email message using IMAP, you aren't actually downloading or storing it on your computer; instead, you're reading it from the Exchange Server.

IMAP allows for limited calendar storage but does not support collaborating on a calendar with other users. POP email is downloaded from the Exchange Server onto your computer.

Once email is downloaded to your computer, it's deleted from the server. To access the email after it's downloaded, you have to use the same computer. If you access your email from different computer or device, it will look like some of your previously downloaded messages have been deleted. With an Exchange email account, you can work on your email messages even when you're not connected to the Exchange Server in your business's IT department.

This is called working offline or using Cached Exchange Mode. Copies of your email and calendar items are kept on your computer in an offline Outlook Data File. Planning a secure future for your company Read more. Find the right email service features to fit your business Read more.

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