Mail and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003

We use Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Mail from OS X .3 and OS X .4 and it work well when I configure the mail acount as an exchange acount.

But I can't configure Adress Book to sync with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

I just try with 10.4.7 and still not working, any help on that would be apreciated.

Dax.

Hi Budgie

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 “xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com:username” is not responding. Check your network connection and that you entered the correct information in the “Outgoing Mail Server” field. If it still doesn’t 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 hope this helps.

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.

I miss Mail's cleaner UI.

Is your Exchange Server set up to accept IMAP4? The Exchange Server may also need to enable SMTP relay.

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.