MX-Contact Version 6.01 has been specifically optimised for use with remote Exchange Servers. Outlook 2003’s Cached Mode provides the facility whereby the Public Folder data is synchronised constantly to a local off-line file (an “.ost” file) in order to improve performance. As a result, when using MX-Contact and opening say company/contact records for example, these are actually opened on the local “cached” folder (as opposed to the remote Exchange Server Public folders). So this is naturally much faster fast when compared to the time it would take to open that same item across a very slow internet connect when the data is held on a remote server that might be on a different continent.

When you save changes to an item, these changes are then first saved to your hard drive. Outlook 2003 then takes care of seamlessly synchronising the change(s) back to the Public Folders in the background, while you continue with other tasks.

In particular MX-Contact is designed to handle working with both online and offline folders and to switch seamlessly between these when required.