I've got a client who uses Mail.app to access his Exchange 2007 account. Is it possible to see the Public Folders in Exchange from Mail? How do I get to them?
MacBook Pro 15",
Mac OS X (10.6.4),
Mail 4.3, Exchange 2007
I've just got public folders working in Mail.app with Exchange. Go to your Exchange folders list in the side panel and select Public Folders. Right mouse or ctrl click to bring up Account Info panel.
Select subscription list tab and wait for the list to populate with available folders. Then go through and select only the folders that you want.
Synchronise and you're done.
If you've ever previously shut off public folder synchronisation by changing permissions drill down into ~/library/mail/Exchange x@x/public folders and make sure read & write is possible.
Unfortunately, I don't see Public Folders in the list of folders in the Exchange mailbox.
I'm guessing there's something missing in the account settings to point to the Public folders. I know in Entourage there's a line in the setup specifically for that, but I can't find it in Mail.
My connection is set up as "Exchange IMAP" with connection as domain\username and IP addresses for Exchange Server. Not sure of Exchange version which may be another issue for you.
Our establishment uses the same hostname that's used by the Web Access client, that is, with browsers, and also used by iPhone and other ActiveSync devices.
So, it's not an IMAP connection.
In Entourage, there's a separate entry for connecting to the Public Folders, which is servername/Public, but I can't figure out where to put this in the Mail account settings.