Connecting to Exchange (Was: New to group)

[Nathan England]

I put Red Hat 7.1 on my system at work just for that, and it just sat and
spun... It can't speak exchange..
Unless I'm doing something wrong..?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Barendt" <ericb@cybertrails.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Connecting to Exchange (Was: New to group)


> Has anybody tried Evolution?  I don't work in a place where Exchange is
used, so I can't test that functionality, but I think it's supposed to work
just like Outlook.
>
> Eric
>
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:48:31AM -0700, Nathan England wrote:
> >
> > The exchange admin had once apon a time allowed me to use pop.  Then he
> > turned that off and told me to use IMAP..  Once he figured how to turn
that
> > off he did.  Which is why I'm running windows on this laptop..
> > I tried your suggestion anyway, but it won't work if pop is turned off.
> >
> > Anyone else have any ideas?  Or know any clients that work?
> >
> > nathan
> >
> > > In your Linux POP mail client:
> > > Set your outgoing SMTP server to mail.somecompany.com, port 25.
> > > Set your incoming mail server to...   (this is where it varies from
> > > person to person)...
> > > In Outlook, click on Tools --> Services --> Properties and write down
> > > the name of your Exchange server.  Mine is "blahblah".  Next, tack on
> > > .somecompany.com which, in my case, results in
"blahblah.somecompany.com".
> > > Set the port to 110 (the standard POP port).  To get your login name,
> > > click the new message button, click "To...", and search for your name.
> > > Click the "Properties" button and write down the number in the "Alias"
> > > field.  The login name that you will use is...
> > > <NT Domain>\<NT Login>\<Alias #>
> > > So for me, I tell my mail client software that my login is:
> > > somedomain\matt\1234567
> > > Your POP mail password is your NT password.
> > > ~Matt
> >
> >
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