RE: [Fed-Talk] Configuring Exchange server for non-MS mailers
RE: [Fed-Talk] Configuring Exchange server for non-MS mailers
- Subject: RE: [Fed-Talk] Configuring Exchange server for non-MS mailers
- From: "Sanderson, David C MONMOUTH DOIM CTSC" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:02:58 -0400
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Configuring Exchange server for non-MS mailers
Turning on IMAP may just require a check box on the exchange server, but
it may require a whole lot more than that to change a policy that
forbids checking the box, and although SMTP is undoubtedly on someplace,
it is likely that it won't relay mail directly from workstations, but
only works for mail passing through the exchange server. However, as
long as WebDAV is on, which it would be, if they offer webmail, and
might be, even if they don't, Entourage will work fine. You also have
to have Exchange 2000 or higher, but if they are going to it now, it
seems unlikely that they would start with an older version. We have
POP/IMAP and SMTP disabled here, and once we got our exchange servers
upgraded from 5.5, Entourage was trivial to set up to work well with
Exchange.
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On Behalf Of Wm. Cerniuk
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 10:19 PM
To: FedTalk Talk; David Emery
Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Configuring Exchange server for non-MS mailers
> and apparently POP/IMAP and SMTP are disabled by default.
Hard to send mail to the outside world without SMTP ;-) It is in use
somewhere there.
You will, unfortunately, not get anywhere without IMAP (secure or
otherwise) activated. It is trivial to activate and actually increases
the security posture of the system (provided at least one user abandon's
MAPI and uses IMAPS). To activate IMAP on the Exchange server, it is a
matter of a single checkbox. Other than that, all the management
functions applied to the proprietary MAPI
accessed accounts are applied to the IMAP accessed accounts as well.
MS actually did a fairly decent job with IMAP on Exchange. Not as good
as high end servers like Sun/iPlanet but decent.
So, if you are going to use Mail, you should have both HTTP(S) and
IMAP(S) turned on at the Exchange server. Entourage can get along with
just HTTP(S) as this is actually WebDAV on the server. Cannot fathom
why Apple cannot get along with just WebDAV as well. In reality, if
IMAP is on, why bother with WebDAV for mail right? There might be some
kind of feature in there though that only can be accessed via WebDAV,
don't know.
Anyway, if this is an impossibility, then the other alternative is to
run a Mac OS X box and a mail system on it. SMTP has to be in use in
your organization if they send mail to the outside world. The trick is
finding it.
Very Respectfully,
Wm. Cerniuk
Project Manager / Sr. Systems Architect
Veterans Affairs
877.529.5730 (toll free)
Time is Short, and the Water Rises
On Apr 15, 2007, at 3:09 PM, David Emery wrote:
> Well, my CIO has made the unilateral decision to move to Exchange
> Server. (Has anyone ever met a CIO who wasn't a horse's rear
> end? I haven't...), and apparently POP/IMAP and SMTP are disabled by
> default.
>
> What do I need to make him do to allow non-Microsoft mailers access to
> the corporate mail system?
> dave
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