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Re: Mutt and Microsoft Exchange



On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:17:11AM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:

> > I find myself in a tough situation.  The mailserver at my work is
> > running Microsoft Exchange.  "For security reasons", the sysadmin says,
> > IMAP and POP are disabled.  From what I understand, Exchange uses some
> > different proprietary protocol (I want to say NTLM, but I couldn't dig
> > up enough information to be sure if that's right) to transfer mail.  My
> > problem, then, is that I want to configure mutt to be able to read mail
> > through this server but I don't know how to do that.  Is there a way?
[snip]

> I don't know of any native solution for mutt using the Exchange
> protocol or operating via the Exchange web interface... maybe someone
> else does.  Obviously Evolution has a connector that doesn't use
> IMAP/POP, so there's probably hope. :)

Exchange uses MAPI, MS's proprietry protocol. Evolution uses MS's web
access protocol, which is a hack.


Steve

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