Can someone please confirm that Mail and Microsft Exchange Server 2003 play nicely, not as a POP but as real time mail account, ie: delivery to my inbox which stays on the server (IMAP)?
I can confirm that provided your administrator configures the Exchange server for IMAP (Mail uses IMAP to connect) that yes, Mail can be used effectively with Exchange and messages will remain on the server; though the set up can be misleading.
For me at least, when you get to Outgoing Server Settings, the set-up panel does not allow you to enter an authentication type, and entering my user name and password will get the following response:
The SMTP server âxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com:usernameâ is not responding. Check your network connection and that you entered the correct information in the âOutgoing Mail Serverâ field. If it still doesnât respond, the server might be temporarily unavailable.
If you continue, you may not be able to send any mail.
When I click continue, the authentication panel comes up, and by changing authentication to NTLM and entering the Domain name - everything works perfectly!
The only other nuisance is that Mail looks at the Exchange Calendar and Personal Folders/Contacts folders as mail folders, but cannot display the contents in the way Outlook or Entourage does, and I have not found a way of eliminating them from the folder list.
I also just set up Microsoft Exchange Server through my web/mail hosting company,
http://www.intermedia.net. I couldn't get it to work right with Apple's Mail.app so I settled for Entourage 2004 Service Pack 2.
The problem was that there was no mail put in send folders after the mail was sent. It vanished.
Just down loaded and set up Entourage 2004's trial version entered the appropriate info and wolla, im sending recieving and syncing to my exchange server,(got to wait now for office 2007 beta for Mac).
Cant get my head around Mail not sending, but keep getting this mesage back from the exchange after trying to send a message, any idea's, same result if I send through Thunderbird.
Alert:
An error occured sending mail: The mail server sent an incorrect greeting: * OK Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 IMAP4rev1 server version 6.5.7638.1 (SERVER.test.com) ready..
I have an unexplainable scenario: Some accounts work with exchange 2003 and some dont in Mail using either exchange or IMAP config. yet they all work in entourage any ideas any one.
You may get a better response if you start a new thread, as this one is already answered it's less likely people will post here đ
In my post above I found the two main issues to be having the firewall on in my mac and changeing the Outgoing Mail Server (smtp): Exchange to text instead of the ip, this cleared all my problems up straight away, hope this helps.
