Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:13:55 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP Message-ID: <45E2F933.5040707@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <45E2E578.4080201@ibctech.ca> References: <45E25D3A.7070308@chrismaness.com> <20070226124421.X89345@chylonia.3miasto.net> <45E2E578.4080201@ibctech.ca>
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Steve Bertrand wrote: >> anyway - outlook doesn't work well anytime, especially with imap. >> simply don't use it, thunderbird for windows works good with imap. > > This is not as feasible as stated. Changing 500 users from Outlook to > something they have likely never seen is always a nightmare, even if the > subtleties are small. > > Try explaining that to upper management..."uh, we are getting rid of > your Outlook, as well as everyone elses because our server won't work > with it. It should only take an hour per user to transfer everything > over to the new software, and most users will experience data loss > because not all parts are transferable." In short, it would cost less to > install Exchange than it would to migrate, train and re-create data for > that many users. > > To the OP...have you checked the log files on the server to check for > errors? I have numerous Outlook and OE users who use IMAP over SSL, and > SMTP Auth on port 587 (again with SSL). We do not use SPA. We use > courier-imap and qmail, and have vpopmail managing the multiple domains. > > Almost all of our domains have to use their full email address as > username. I have seen before however, that sometimes Outlook will try to > append their domain to the username (eg: user@domain.com\MSdomain or > something similar) so the problem may rest there. > > Depending on what IMAP server you use, the log file may be > /var/log/maillog. It should give you an idea of where to start looking. > > Steve I honestly do think that MS Outlook complies as well as other IMAP clients, just like MS and their IE browser >_>... For example, the University of Washington has the following for their email client page: http://www.washington.edu/computing/email/programs.html#configuring , and if you note the location of outlook (the bottom) along with the information "we don't support this", then maybe you get a hunch about how usable Outlook is with IMAP. The UW uses uw-imap (whatever the latest version is) because they develop that mailserver. I'd look at the directions a bit though, see what's going on, but yes authentication does work with SSL/TLS, and it works well from what I can understand. Otherwise other depts (like the one I was working for at the UW) would complain about not being to use Outlook, unless it was Exchange related. -Garrett
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