Hi Alexander, 

On Sunday, July 31, 2005, 6:07:24 PM, you wrote:


> 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).

I did try changing that setting to combined whilst I was trying to get it to 
work. However this doesn't solve the problem.

> 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. ;-)

Thanks for try to help! :)

> You certainly don't need the wicked MAPI mode for that, you can use POP3
> and your local Exchange as SMTP server.

Yes agreed, although initially I was trying MAPI because the website suggested 
that it was supported. I will try POP3 later in the week.

> 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.

That isn't a problem for me, thanks for the advice.



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