Outlook Protocol

Outlook can handle various popular email protocols.

Microsoft Outlook is the collaboration application in Microsoft's Office productivity suite. Outlook can handle data served by Microsoft Exchange as well as various non-proprietary email, calendar and syndication protocols.

Mail

Microsoft Outlook works with Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft's proprietary mail server for businesses. Outlook can also handle popular email protocols included POP3 (Post Office Protocol), IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) and SMTP (Send Mail Transfer Protocol.) Users can also access Windows Live Hotmail accounts from Outlook. Active mail accounts will show up in the Mail section of Outlook.

Calendar

Outlook Calendar can handle calendars served by Microsoft Exchange as well as Internet Calendar (.ics) format files. Internet Calendar event items may be sent via email as a one-time calendar snapshot. Whole calendars can be subscribed to over the Internet. Calendar event items and subscribed calendars will show up in the user's Outlook calendar.

Other

Outlook can also subscribe to RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feeds to keep track of updates to websites such as news sites and blogs. Subscribed feeds show up in the Mail section of Outlook.

References

• Outlook: What is an Exchange Server e-mail account.
• Outlook: Introduction to RSS
• Outlook: Introduction to Internet Calendars

Resources

• Microsoft Outlook