[ILUG] MS Exchange & Linux...

[Kenn Humborg]

> I'm told fetchmail will now talk to an exchange server (in MS's
> format, the
> name of which I forget right now). I haven't tried in or anything, just
> something I remember seeing in the last 2 or 3 months . . . it
> may even have
> been on ILUG

I don't think it was here, but this came up on comp.mail.imap
lately:

Subject: Re: Followup on space in imap user name
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:54:59 +0300
From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow at mow.siemens.ru>
Organization: Siemens Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.mail.imap
References: 1

"Pat Colbeck" <pat.colbeck at esc.azlan.co.uk> wrote in message
news:slrn8ai7a6.mtq.pat.colbeck at dasterdly.esc.azlan.co.uk...
>
> 4. The way to get it to work reliably is to login specifying the domain
>    and the mailbox name as well like this:
>
>    "MY-DOMAIN/Jim Smith/Jim.Smith" jimspassword
>
>    or more generally
>
>    "domain/user name/alias" password
>
> It is also neccesary that your IMAP client supports the Microsoft NTLM
> protocol.

These two are incompatible. If you use NTLM, mailbox name or alias MUST be
the same as your NT user name. There is simply no place in NTLM where you
can specify mailboxname. The above form is correct for POP/IMAP access.

What you refer to as "user name" above is actually a "mailbox name" on
Exchange server. One of property of Exchange mailbox is NT user name+domain
that has access to it (you can connect as different user, but won't get
permissions to access mailbox). Depending of your corporate policy, mailbiox
names may be or may not be the same as NT users name. Ours are not. For this
reason I had to ask to setup alias == my NT username to be able to use
fetchmail+NTLM.

(Speaking about fetchmail, it does not support NTLM across NT domains)

NTLM is really needed only if plain text authentication is disabled on
Exchange.

/andrej