[nylug-talk] Connecting to an MS mail server

[R. Drew Davis]

I don't have Exchange here, so my plan had been to sit quietly and learn
something.    But I was surprised as this discussion wound down that
nobody mentioned the Evolution Exchange Connector??   I thought that had
some edge in connecting Evolution to an Exchange server.

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/trench/16234.html

Is the lesson that if Exchange is configured with POP or IMAP, you don't
need that Exchange Connector for anything?

Drew

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 12:20 -0500, sixtyfourbeets wrote:
> It was actually a lot simpler than that.
> Apparently I was trying to connect to the wrong server, and the only way I
> found this out was
> walking over to the other new guy who is very Linux knowledgeable.
> The veterans were sending me to imap.company.com, pop3.company.com which was
> the wrong server name.
> 
> Thanks though,
> Steve M
> 
> On 1/19/07, Michael B Allen <mba2000 at ioplex.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:57:15 -0500
> > sixtyfourbeets <sixtyfourbeets at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > When I was initially setting up my mail box I had tried IMAP/POP using
> > > the same configuration
> > > the other guys had.  I wasn't not getting any success, however the
> > > other guys are connecting using IMAP/POP.
> > > Is it possible the admins left the other guys connecting to IMAP/POP
> > > and being that I'm new they disabled
> > > it for me?
> >
> > Doubt it. The best way to figure out what's going on is to get a packet
> > capture. In my experience it usually has to do with some setting like
> > a port or TLS vs STARTTLS or the IMAP client's inability to handle a
> > referral (e.g. you have to use the specific server your mailbox resides
> > on). Linux IMAP clients are designed occomidating a wide variety of
> > servers and server configs so they have lots of things you need to set
> > right whereas MS clients are tuned to MS servers.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > --
> > Michael B Allen
> > PHP Active Directory SSO
> > http://www.ioplex.com/