From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 8 15:18:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21E8F37B420 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:18:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a239.otenet.gr [212.205.215.239]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g18NIKB2026483; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 01:18:21 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g18NIHP11143; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 01:18:17 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 01:18:16 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Oscar Castaneda Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail vs. exchange Message-ID: <20020208231816.GC10847@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020208183011.48209.qmail@web14001.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020208183011.48209.qmail@web14001.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-02-08 10:30, Oscar Castaneda wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if I can use fetchmail to download > email from an MS Exchange Server?? > > I already configured my .fetchmailrc file with the > server, protocol, user and password, however i get the > following error: > > bash-2.05a$ fetchmail > fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) As others have pointed, you'll have to check what protocols are supported by the Exchange server. There are both POP3 and IMAP `connectors' for Exchange servers, but you'll have to ask the Exchange server admin what he has running on the server. If neither POP3 nor IMAP are available, you'll pretty much doomed to use Outlook or some web interface. -- Giorgos Keramidas . . . . . . . . . keramida@{ceid.upatras.gr,freebsd.org} FreeBSD Documentation Project . . . http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ FreeBSD: The power to serve . . . . http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message