Re: Mutt and Microsoft Exchange
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:29:33AM -0400, Ryan Curtin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
> Looking through the mutt archives, I found some very old posts (circa
> 1999) of people who appeared to have the same problem but there was no
> decisive solution. I'm hoping things have changed in eight years.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan
>
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. :)
Maybe your Windows admin could be convinced to open up IMAP/POP
internally on your network? You could the VPN in to access it without
it being exposed to the wilds of the Internet if he's worried about
that...
I'm running mutt in an Exchange environment here. Always looking for
ways to better integrate... fortunately I have IMAP access though :)
Ray