Exchange under Mountain Lion

I think until the next reboot...

@ JacHelp kan you please reboot your Mac and let us know if things still work and of your serversettings stick!

Thanks

Peter

I haven't test it before.

But you are right after a reboot the same error and again put the old denomination.

I phone back to Apple Support and let you know !

Hi,

I Phone again to Apple support and those told me this is a Micrsoft problem.

I Phone to Microsoft - but I'm not a client of them - so if you will have a help please pay 275,00 € !!!

Next step I will ask to my supplier who provide me this exchange mail service to solve this problem with Microsoft

For the moment I have to adapt the original denomination 😠 each time I satrt my mail programm !

JacHelp

apple is wrong when telling you it is a microsoft problem. it is a mail app problem in mountain lion. exchange is working with iphones, ipads, microsoft office 2011, its working on windows. but it is not working wit moutain lion mail app.

so save your money an talk again to apple

I agree with you, but at the moment I don't want to play a ping pong game with them.

I do hope within a few days Apple or Microsoft with solve this problem

Someone called me from apple regarding this issue yesterday. They are going to call me again today with the engineering team to understand the problem. The guy also said that they will request some log files of my computer. It seems they are working on this issue and release a patch once they identify what's the real problem.

I am in the SAME EXACT BOAT. I have everyone using OWA still the problem is resolved.

I am also in the same boat. Exchage account e-mails disappearing after mail opens?

Could anybody explain to me what is internal server address?

Confirmed, problem occurring here too. hosts/etc fix posted above is working on and off. All behaviors reported above (continual "internal server" reversions to .local) are happening to me. Cleared keychain, deleted and reinstated Exchange accounts in both iCal and Mail.

Mountain Lion 10.8, MacBookPro (2011) 2.4 i7 8gb, very clean installation. Trying to communicate with standard Exchange 2007 server. Nothing unusual or funny installed on either end. All worked flawlessly in 10.7. Airport Exterme / Time Capsule router at home, Comcast service at both locations (home service and business class at work).

Very frustrated. Aside from Microsoft Office, wouldn't this be the most business-critical compatibility to test before releasing the update? Love ya Apple, but this is messed up.

Yah - we've got the same problem here. It's stopped the migration to Mountain Lion on our existing Macs dead in it's track at the office. And we're going to hold off on the plans to transition to Macs for some of the staff who've requested them until this is worked out.

Annoying since we were waiting for Mountain Lion to be released to make these purchases figuring it would be easier to by the units with it installed rather than going through the hassle of an upgrade.

I've tried all the various solutions proposed here. Most of them will get me access to mail but not to calendar and none of them are surviving a reboot.

The bottom line is this - I'm self employeed and I need email and calendars that work. I use exchange because that is what the business world uses.

I have spent HOURS now trying to do different band-aid fixes. Nothing works permanently.

The software is broken. Exchange support is broken. I won't be able to fix it - Apple must fix it. I'm not going to waste any more time trying to update servers, SSL's boxes, restarting, etc. I am going to use Microsoft for mac 2011 until they get this thing working properly.

Hear that by beloved Apple? I'm CHOOSING to use MICROSOFT over your software.

awd

I got this working by creating a symlink in ~/Library/Mail/V2/.

Apparently at my company we can connect to one of two Exchange servers, and it is chosen from a load balancer, round robin DNS, or something else. I found that mail.app was making two local directories for my Exchange account:

drwxr-xr-x@ 14 asmith asmith 510 Jul 31 13:00 EWS-asmith@p-emfe01-wf.company.com

drwxr-xr-x@ 14 asmith asmith 510 Jul 26 21:48 EWS-asmith@p-emfe02-wf.company.com

Depending on when mail.app was started, or which server I actually connected to (again based on SLB) I may or may not have access to my complete mail.

So I removed the second directory and made it a soft symlink to the first:

drwxr-xr-x@ 14 asmith asmith 510 Jul 31 13:00 EWS-asmith@p-emfe01-wf.company.com

lrwxr-xr-x 1 asmith asmith 31 Jul 31 13:01 EWS-asmith@p-emfe02-wf.company.com -> EWS-asmith@p-emfe01-wf.company.com

Mail.app is working perfectly. I can restart it, click on other mailboxes, etc all works fine.

The bug in Mail.app must be in how it saves data to ~/Library/Mail/V2/. It's clearly not using the right key (directory name) in situations with load balanced Exchange systems.

Andy Smith

Good God man - I wish that were in english! It sounds crazy enough to work.

Is there any possible way to dumb it down - or is this as dumbed down as it gets?

Just to confirm another frustrated Exchange/Mail.app user - all the above (continual "internal server" reversions to .local etc etc ) are happening to me too. Drives me crazy. Apple: please FIX ASAP!

Fortunately I can still use my mail, calendar etc on my iPad/iPhone when on the move, but I rather use my MBA at the office!