I've been using Outlook through a business Exchange server and when
away Outlook web-mail which gives me exactly the Outlook interface and
ALL it's features wia the web.  I will soon no longer have access to
the company server (I'm retiring) so I have to do something else.  I
MUST be able to transport several hundred Outlook Contacts and with
lower priority Calander.  I love using Word as the input for Outlook,
especially the spell checker and formatting options.  So, what is the
besst approach to get as close to what I have as possible??
A few other points:
I have other free web-based email accounts.
Web access is essential to email...is there a web-based solution that
can sync with my home system (XP Pro)?
If necessary I could use a client program and have web access but
without the two talking to each other...ugh!
I use Mozilla.
If necessary I guess Contacts and Calander could be seperate from the
email client but that's less desirable.
Outlook Express might seem an obvious choice but I don't think it's
great and I've heard Microsoft will soon stop supporting it.
So again, what's my best option???

well, why don t you just use outlook as shipped in microsoft office?
would be  the simpliest solution...

or this maybe
http://www.mailstreet.com/exchange/pricing.asp

frenchcancan-ga.... At about $150 per year, every year, I'm not
interested in mailstreet.  I've thought of using Outlook and assume
there is no problem using it as a single client program (no Exchange
server) but, frankly, I cannot figure out how to easily backup all the
data, especially Contacts.  I have a backup drive with software that
automatically backs up everything but the .pst file.  Furthermore, I
am not convinced the .pst file even includes Contacts; I read
someplace that it does not.  With everything syncronized to an
Exchange server run by a network guy there was no problem but I will
soon be on my own.  A simpler program with similar features to Outlook
AND the ability to transprot Contacts to it would be better.

If you want the same features you have now: Outlook and Outlook Web
Interface, research Windows Small Business server.  You'd be running
Exchange yourself and have web access....

Jim 
http://www.PeakBackup.com

Being an Exchange administrator, what we do frequently, is export the
contents of a mailbox to a PST file, and in the event that the
contacts do not go to that PST file, we create a folder in the PST
file and specify that folder is for contacts.  From there, you could
simply copy all the contacts from your Exchange Message Store to your
PST file you created.  Then, when you are at home, you could run
Outlook off of your PST file.

Just a suggestion, and it won't even cost you anything, except the
cost of Outlook, which you may already have.

If you have any questions or comments to my comment, please let me
know, this is right up my alley!

Steve