On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:14:30PM +0100, Phil Ashby wrote:
On 13/07/10 16:53, Dan vi5u0-alug@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
But is there a reason you can't ask the admin to set up a server side rule or just simply redirect your mail to another address ?
The sysadmins volunteered the answer to this without being asked. The answer was that they won't countenance the use of the Exchange equivalent of a .forward file under any circumstances whatever. And a somewhat pointed offer of the opportunity to attend a training course in the use of OWA.
Thanks to all who replied. One or two of the leads sound promising.
Dan,
We have a very similar issue here in BT, the Exchange systems have forwarding disabled, so in order to read my email from a Debian desktop, I have used (in chronological order):
Evolution: ok-ish with Exchange 2003 OWA using Ximian connector
Outlook 2003 in a Qemu VM against Exchange 2007 (I was 'upgraded')
Thunderbird or Evolution or any IMAP/CalDAV/LDAP client via DavMail to the Exchange 2007 OWA - works very nicely, is 100% FOSS and written in Java so runs anywhere (currently on my local mail server). I was so impressed I gave the guy a donation!
http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ - it rocks :)
There's a little tool I used when I was at BT that does a sort of 'fetchmail' on Outlook. It was written in Java. I'm desperately trying to think of its name - but can't at the moment. If I do remember I will add it here.