Hello Paul Meathrel & everyone else, on 31-Jul-2005 at 18:22 you (Paul Meathrel) wrote:
>> I tried a while a go but eventually gave up. I never tried what you want >> to do (automatically send a message), but the reading confirmations that >> I agreed to create were never sent automatically either (though I don't >> know if they should). > It seems to me that they should be automatically sent. Basically what I > am seeing means that messages created and sent by hand are send but any > automatically generated messages are not! I think this basically the net > result is that MAPI with the Bat is unusable for anything automatic. I don't know if maybe playing with the options in the Account properties "Transport" may help you, like setting the delivery type to "combined" so that it'll send and receive? (I don't know if "combined delivery" applies to the automatic mail checking, the documentation doesn't specify that explicitely). Tomorrow I'll try to connect to our Exchange with Evolution from a Linux box. I never knew that Evolution V2.x has a built-in open-source Exchange connector. And I think its not relying on MAPI. ;-) >> I don't see the benefit of TB connecting to Exchange via MAPI > In my situation where I am using TB at work, I want email to go through > our Exchange Server because this means that the sent and reply addresses > can come from our corporate domain. You certainly don't need the wicked MAPI mode for that, you can use POP3 and your local Exchange as SMTP server. As long as you're authenticated on the Windows domain in which the Exchange server resides, you don't even need to configure TB to authenticate separately (given that your Exchange administrator has configured the local SMTP connector to allow relaying of all mail from within the local IP range). The only difference to the MAPI mode is that the *sent* messages will not end in the Exchange mailbox, but in the local sent mail folder, only. >> (after all, it downloads all the messages, and the Exchange folder and >> your local MAPI folder will be out of sync in no time, creating >> duplicate messages in the local folders). > I have not found this to be a problem, simply scheduling a send and > receive with the server deals with this (at least in my experience). I never tried it, but maybe it makes a difference whether you configure TB to leave messages on the server (thats what I did), or download them once and delete them from the server (that would not be what I want). -- Best regards, Alexander (http://www.neurowerx.de - ICQ 238153981) If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. -- Albert Einstein ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.51.10 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
