--- On Wed, 21/9/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Evolution] MS Exchange
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "Tom Davies" 
<[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, 21 September, 2011, 17:22


   On September 21, 2011 at 8:22 AM Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote:

   > Hi :)
   > How can i find out which MS Exchange Server is being used at
   > work.  The network admin is unlikely to actually tell me but i figured
   > there would probably be a way of finding out either from Ubuntu or if i
   > reboot into Windows.
   > Regards from
   > Tom :)
  
  I apologize before-hand for this horrible webmail client and any mangling 
that it may do to the message.
   
  I would *HIGHLY* recommend against trying to go around your Exchange admin's 
back to connect an unauthorized client to your mail environment.  Depending on 
the behavior of the client it could cause server-side issues and cause a 
"resume producing event" for you (slang for getting you fired).  We had an 
individual attempt something similar where I work and his client was 
misbehaving extremely badly, we suspect that the client that he was using was 
also infected with some sort of trojan.  It caused the mailbox database that 
his mailbox was located in to produce *MASSIVE* quantities of log files 
(Exchange produces database transaction log files for every change to the 
mailbox database just like SQL server does for its databases).  It would 
produce so many log files that it would cause the databases that used the same 
log file disk to go offline due to the log file disk running out of space.  In 
our guy's case, he got lucky and senior management just
 slapped his hand.  Your management might not be so understanding.
   
  I, personally, wouldn't chance it without approval from your management and 
your Exchange admin. 


Hi :)
Thanks but i'm only interested in preparing rather than implementing anything.  

I want to be ready with answers when i do talk to the network admin.  If i ask 
him odd one-off questions over the course of a few months then he is likely to 
assume that i am implementing things he is not ready for.  So, once i work out 
which version of MS Exchange then i will be able to ask or find out which 
version of Evo and perhaps be ready for some of the common problems with that 
on the various versions of Ubuntu (probably still a mix of 10.04 and 10.10 but 
things might change by the time i get around to doing any finding out).  
 
Also i am vastly much less vulnerable to malware because i have been allowed to 
set-up dual-boots on most machines so i can happily stay in Ubuntu and use 
web-mail.  To get other people to use the non-Windows side i need to get the 
corporate mail system working.  

Pablo has helped me get the info i want.  Hopefully i might be able to find out 
in a couple of days, maybe a couple of weeks.  PcTech's advice is also good so 
2 sides of this are neatly covered :)  Thanks guys :)
Regards from
Tom :)
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