On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:35:42PM -0400, Touloumtzis, Michael wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 07:41:32PM -0400, Robert Rossmoore wrote: > > hi i have outlook and outlook express is there a way to use just outlook to > > send and receve mail from that....please advise > > Hard to be sure what you're asking, but I'll guess that the question is > this (and if not maybe someone else will want to hear the answer ;-): > "How can I read MS-Exchange mail using Debian Linux instead of MS-Exchange > or Outlook clients?" > > The company I work for uses MS Exchange with most folks (except me :) > using MS Exchange or MS Outlook clients. Our Exchange server supports > POP3, so I just use fetchmail to download the mail to my Debian potato box > (every 2 hours during the night, and every 10 minutes during work hours). > For outgoing mail I use our standard SMTP mail host. For a mail client > I use mutt. All works okay, except for some MS-specific stuff like > .doc format attachments and the tnef mail format (vs. generic MIME). > All these have turned out to be things that can be worked around 99.9% > of the time with StarOffice, tnef2txt, etc. I can use a Win95 machine > for the exception cases when all else fails. > > So ... see if your system has POP3 download capability and SMTP sending > capability. If so you're in business and the details can be worked out. > > - Mike Touloumtzis > > P.S. - One reason I use this setup (besides generally preferring Linux) > is that the mutt mail client makes reading mail lists like this one much > easier that would be the case with the standard MS mail clients. > > -- > Michael E. Touloumtzis > Computer Associates International > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null > Our Exchange (eww... yucky) server also has IMAP enabled, which is a much better way to go IMHO. -- Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.
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