From: Jakma, Paul (Paul.Jakma at domain compaq.com)
Date: Wed 16 Feb 2000 - 16:41:02 GMT
* OK Microsoft Exchange IMAP4rev1 server version 5.5.2651.68
(dboexc1.dbo.cpqcor
p.net) ready
123 login digital2/c-jakma mypasswd
123 OK LOGIN completed.
YES!!! thanks kenn for passing that on!!!
bye bye outlook!!!!!
-paul
{overjoyed}
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenn Humborg [mailto:kenn at domain bluetree.ie]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 3:15 PM
> To: ilug at domain linux.ie
> Subject: RE: [ILUG] MS Exchange & Linux...
>
>
> > 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 domain mow.siemens.ru>
> Organization: Siemens Inc.
> Newsgroups: comp.mail.imap
> References: 1
>
> "Pat Colbeck" <pat.colbeck at domain esc.azlan.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:slrn8ai7a6.mtq.pat.colbeck at domain 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
>
>
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