Re: getting mail from Exchange/Outlook
On 13.09.17 15:32, Steve Kleene wrote:
> My employer is forcing me to shut down my long-time Linux mail server. I
> have no choice in the matter.
>
> My employer uses Microsoft Exchange/Outlook for mail. They have an Outlook
> Web App (OWA) that I can access from Firefox, but as far as I can tell you
> cannot save a file to the local disk with OWA. That makes OWA pretty
> useless. The documentation, if it can be believed, says that I can access
> Outlook with POP3 and IMAP4 programs including Thunderbird.
>
> If any of you have experience and/or advice with this problem, I'd be
> grateful to hear it.
If the employer's core requirement is to funnel all mail through one M$
mail server, you might be able to get away with just pointing your Linux
mail server at theirs. (About 12 years ago, we did that when our
department faced the same corporate directive. I can't remember whether
we were able to continue using SMTP or had to switch to POP3 for the
link. But it allowed the departmental mail server to hold/distribute
mail as before, so no upheaval.)
Or shut down the Linux mail server, and use fetchmail to fetch mail to
your host, via POP3 or IMAP, then use your preferred MUA. (OK, there are
alternatives to fetchmail (and procmail to sort it), but I've not tried
them.)
Erik
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