[WinMac] RE: Mac Exchange clients from MacCentral

Nishimura, Scott(Scott.Nishimura[at]trw.com)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:14:28 -0700

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek K. Miller [at Home] [mailto:dkmiller@pobox.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 1998 1:14 PM
> Subject: Mac Exchange clients from MacCentral
>
>
> Meanwhile, there are alternatives to using Outlook Client for
> Exchange server. With the release of Exchange server 5.5 the
> Exchange team added the ability for the server to act as an IMAP
> server.
>
> This lets any Internet mail client to send and receive mail via
> Exchange server. You'll need to find out the Exchange server's
> IMAP and SMTP address and place them in the preferences dialog
> in your e-mail program. You can determine if you want to keep
> messages on the server or have your e-mail client download all
> messages locally. You can also have your e-mail client check
> mail on other IMAP or POP servers.

We use the Netscape IMAP client and it works fine. There are a
number of caveats, especially for people constantly moving back
and forth between IMAP and Outlook, but in general it does the job.
>
> Plus, you can use a new feature of Exchange server called
> Outlook Web Access (OWA). With OWA, Mac users can check their
> e-mail, schedule appointments and even explore public folders
> all from any browser on the network. The limitations are that
> you don't have access to local messages, you must have a
> connection to the server (no offline use) and it's a little
> slow. Interested in this solution? You can find a white paper on
> OWA at:
>
http://www.microsoft.com/outlook/outlook98/documents/owafact/web
acc.asp?pre

beware of using OWA for reading email (it's fine for calendar):
it doesn't handle the dual-fork nature of Mac files correctly
so if you send an email with a Word document and then download
it, the resulting file will have a plain icon that doesn't know
what its creator application is. If you know Word created it,
you can open Word and do a "File/Open" though.

> Derek K. Miller
> dkmiller@pobox.com

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