Douglas Willis wrote:
Why the move to Exchange?
Nothing to do with me! I've no idea. /me crawls under desk and puts brown paper bag over head.
As far as I am aware Exchange supports imap and pop3 as mail interfaces. This should support any Linux mail client.
This is better news, but conflicts with what Laurie wrote:
Exchange is fully proprietary, and doesn't run IMAP. You're restricted to Outlook as a client.
Ah, Adam says:
If you only want mail access then make sure the people who set it up leave pop and imap
turned
on (you will have to check out the imap status yourself)
I think you should point out to your management that going the exchange
route
is not a great idea.
This seems obvious from all your mails (thanks, all). Unfortunately I don't have a lot of say in the matter - I did argue at length for getting a linux server to run as our mail server, set up and maintained where necessary, by linux professionals. To no avail. The bloke who has talked the company into getting ms exchange sadly is the guy who walked backwards making his fingers into the sign off a cross saying "I don't know anything about Unix, thank God" when i was trying to explain I needed an ssh port left open in our firewall a few months ago.
http://www.winecentric.com/notes5.shtml Hey! Pity I didn't read up this a few months ago. Not worth the effort now we're getting good old ms exchange.
Thanks all,
Jen