The Internet Infusion Microsoft takes big Internet strides with Exchange 5.0, allowing users to access its mail and public folders with Internet-standard clients. Users can send and receive mail with a POP3 client. Users with POP3 clients that don't read HTML, such as Eudora, can disable the feature in order to display plain text. The Exchange NNTP server works similarly with Exchange's public folders, which are NNTP-enabled by default, allowing a user with appropriate privileges to access Exchange discussions with any newsgroup reader. ASPs are HTML pages with embedded commands in Microsoft's JScript or any other scripting language.
ASPs provide a basic architecture for creating dynamically generated Web applications.
Currently, the ActiveX Messaging objects cannot access some Exchange objects, such as calendar documents. For the most part, you're limited to discussions and standard messages. Also, customized forms created in products like Outlook have to be redesigned for HTML with a product like the forthcoming Microsoft Visual InterDev, a toolkit of Web design and management applications. Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 .