There are Exchange modules that need to be installed on Exchange server for POP and smtp mail to work. The company I work for frown on installing these modules at our sights. SMTP mail must go through corporate headquarters server and I don't think that pop works at all. IE: It's up to administrator whether it will work or not and how server is setup. On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 05:41, Mr. Baldwin wrote: > >Subject: M$ Exchange + Pop Access? > >Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:20:58 +0800 > >From: "Ow Mun Heng" <ow.mun.heng@xxxxxxx> > >To: <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >Reply-To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > >Hi, > > > > Would anyone in this list know how to connect to a M$ Exchange > >server to download emails? I would like to use fetchmail or some other > >mail-clients to connect to the Exchange server for this. > > > >Currently I am using M$ Outlook but would like to experiment with getting my > >mails fetched from the Exchange server, do a little bit of pre-processing on > >the mails(filtering etc) before fetching it via pop/imap from outlook or > >some other mail clients(mozilla). > > > >ps : is it possible to connect to a m$ exchange mail server using another > >mail client? (such as mozilla???) > > > > > >Cheers, .^. > >Mun Heng, Ow /V\ > >H/M Engineering /( )\ > >Western Digital M'sia ^^-^^ > >DID : 03-7870 5168 The Linux Advocate > > > > > > > My school uses M$Exchange (for some unknown reasons, since everything else in school is on Macs), but I collect my e-mail in several ways, none of which involve using an M$ product. > I can receive these email msgs with Netscape Mail on my linux box, Mail.app on my iBook or on my IMAP/webmail at School-library.net. > With the same method, I am sure I could collect the same mail with Mozmail, Thunderbird, KMail, Pine or Evolution. > All you need is to know the the pop mail server address (mail.wdc.com or pop.wdc.com likely), go to preferences and set up an account, tell the mail client to collect mails from it, give it your username and password. Outgoing mail goes through my ISP's SMTP server. > I half think I must be misinterpreting your question, because this seems so simple to me. Oddly, the misinformed tech admin at my school didn't think this was possible, but I do it without a problem. > > tony > > http://www.School-library.net > Freedom to Learn! > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Enter for a chance to win one year's supply of allergy relief! > http://r.hotbot.com/r/lmt_clrtn/http://mocda3.com/1/c/563632/125699/307982/307982 -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
