I got tired of KMail because for some reason or another it was somehow capturing and sending duplicates back into the IMAP server. Also, it seems darn slow when new email messages comes through forcing me to wait several minutes for scan completion before I can even browse the email message.
So, I decided to switch to another email client. I tried Thunderbird, but unfortunately the IMAP implementation did not even list all of my sub folders as Kmail did so I gave that one up in a hurry.
Finally, I decided to try out evolution since my M$ Exchange server is my primary email server and evolution has the exchange connector builtin for it.
Everything seemed a cinch, that is I can connect and quicky see all my folders, and other things such as to delete emails and so on. Fast and great!
Unfortunatly, I cannot send email messages through it.
I searched everywhere trying to figure out why I cannot send email messages through evolution via the exchange connector, why, even when I looked into the account setup, there is no "Outgoing Mail" tab for it - but reading various faqs and so on, if I get this right, exchange connector is setup both for incomming and outgoing, right?
I even tried to setup another account for outgoing mail like I did with Kmail; one account for incoming (IMAP), the other account for outgoing via local sendmail.
Any advice?
Thanks- Dan
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:23 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
I got tired of KMail because for some reason or another it was somehow capturing and sending duplicates back into the IMAP server. Also, it seems darn slow when new email messages comes through forcing me to wait several minutes for scan completion before I can even browse the email message.
So, I decided to switch to another email client. I tried Thunderbird, but unfortunately the IMAP implementation did not even list all of my sub folders as Kmail did so I gave that one up in a hurry.
Finally, I decided to try out evolution since my M$ Exchange server is my primary email server and evolution has the exchange connector builtin for it.
Everything seemed a cinch, that is I can connect and quicky see all my folders, and other things such as to delete emails and so on. Fast and great!
Unfortunatly, I cannot send email messages through it.
I searched everywhere trying to figure out why I cannot send email messages through evolution via the exchange connector, why, even when I looked into the account setup, there is no "Outgoing Mail" tab for it - but reading various faqs and so on, if I get this right, exchange connector is setup both for incomming and outgoing, right?
I even tried to setup another account for outgoing mail like I did with Kmail; one account for incoming (IMAP), the other account for outgoing via local sendmail.
Any advice?
---- exchange connector requires exchange server but neither kmail nor thunderbird can make exchange connection so they use only standard imap & smtp protocols with exchange server.
ditch the exchange connector on evolution and you should be fine
Craig
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 15:04 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:23 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
I got tired of KMail because for some reason or another it was somehow capturing and sending duplicates back into the IMAP server. Also, it seems darn slow when new email messages comes through forcing me to wait several minutes for scan completion before I can even browse the email message.
So, I decided to switch to another email client. I tried Thunderbird, but unfortunately the IMAP implementation did not even list all of my sub folders as Kmail did so I gave that one up in a hurry.
Finally, I decided to try out evolution since my M$ Exchange server is my primary email server and evolution has the exchange connector builtin for it.
Everything seemed a cinch, that is I can connect and quicky see all my folders, and other things such as to delete emails and so on. Fast and great!
Unfortunatly, I cannot send email messages through it.
I searched everywhere trying to figure out why I cannot send email messages through evolution via the exchange connector, why, even when I looked into the account setup, there is no "Outgoing Mail" tab for it - but reading various faqs and so on, if I get this right, exchange connector is setup both for incomming and outgoing, right?
That's correct. Any account using the Exchange-based accounts will be sent through the Exchange server. There is no "outgoing" server option (for that matter, there's no "incoming" server option...it's all Exchange).
If you are unable to send mail via Exchange, it could be an authentication issue. There's generally two, one for incoming and one for outgoing (it'll ask you to authenticate when you click "Send"). If you check the "Remember password" box before you enter that outgoing authentication, it should work from then on.
I even tried to setup another account for outgoing mail like I did with Kmail; one account for incoming (IMAP), the other account for outgoing via local sendmail.
Any advice?
exchange connector requires exchange server but neither kmail nor thunderbird can make exchange connection so they use only standard imap & smtp protocols with exchange server.
ditch the exchange connector on evolution and you should be fine
Craig
---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@internap.com - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:27 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 15:04 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:23 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
I searched everywhere trying to figure out why I cannot send email
messages
through evolution via the exchange connector, why, even when I
looked into
the account setup, there is no "Outgoing Mail" tab for it - but
reading various faqs
and so on, if I get this right, exchange connector is setup both
for incomming and
outgoing, right?
That's correct. Any account using the Exchange-based accounts will be sent through the Exchange server. There is no "outgoing" server option (for that matter, there's no "incoming" server option...it's all Exchange).
If you are unable to send mail via Exchange, it could be an authentication issue. There's generally two, one for incoming and one for outgoing (it'll ask you to authenticate when you click "Send"). If you check the "Remember password" box before you enter that outgoing authentication, it should work from then on.
Yes, it did prompt me for a password for permission to enter and scan my exchange account folders, and yes, I was prompted for a password when replying to a message or sending a new message and I did fire off a test message, watched it zip through "On This Computer"->outbox, but then nothing happened. The message was never delivered.
I tried to look at the exchange logs to see if there was "permissions denied" or even for a delivery attempt but gave up because I couldn't remember how to find the logs.
Any suggestions would be appreciated perhaps a howto link or something?
Thanks Dan
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 16:18 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:27 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 15:04 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:23 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
I searched everywhere trying to figure out why I cannot send email
messages
through evolution via the exchange connector, why, even when I
looked into
the account setup, there is no "Outgoing Mail" tab for it - but
reading various faqs
and so on, if I get this right, exchange connector is setup both
for incomming and
outgoing, right?
That's correct. Any account using the Exchange-based accounts will be sent through the Exchange server. There is no "outgoing" server option (for that matter, there's no "incoming" server option...it's all Exchange).
If you are unable to send mail via Exchange, it could be an authentication issue. There's generally two, one for incoming and one for outgoing (it'll ask you to authenticate when you click "Send"). If you check the "Remember password" box before you enter that outgoing authentication, it should work from then on.
Yes, it did prompt me for a password for permission to enter and scan my exchange account folders, and yes, I was prompted for a password when replying to a message or sending a new message and I did fire off a test message, watched it zip through "On This Computer"->outbox, but then nothing happened. The message was never delivered.
I tried to look at the exchange logs to see if there was "permissions denied" or even for a delivery attempt but gave up because I couldn't remember how to find the logs.
You need to bring up the "Event Viewer" on the Exchange server to see that stuff.
Any suggestions would be appreciated perhaps a howto link or something?
You see to have done everything correctly from the Fedora side of things. It left the "Outbox" on Evolution, so it was handed to the Exchange server. What happened after that I don't know. As I said, you should look at the Event Viewer on the Windows machine to see what happened.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@internap.com - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - The gene pool could use a little chlorine. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 16:18 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:27 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 15:04 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:23 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
I searched everywhere trying to figure out why I cannot send email
messages
through evolution via the exchange connector, why, even when I
looked into
the account setup, there is no "Outgoing Mail" tab for it - but
reading various faqs
and so on, if I get this right, exchange connector is setup both
for incomming and
outgoing, right?
That's correct. Any account using the Exchange-based accounts will be sent through the Exchange server. There is no "outgoing" server option (for that matter, there's no "incoming" server option...it's all Exchange).
If you are unable to send mail via Exchange, it could be an authentication issue. There's generally two, one for incoming and one for outgoing (it'll ask you to authenticate when you click "Send"). If you check the "Remember password" box before you enter that outgoing authentication, it should work from then on.
Yes, it did prompt me for a password for permission to enter and scan my exchange account folders, and yes, I was prompted for a password when replying to a message or sending a new message and I did fire off a test message, watched it zip through "On This Computer"->outbox, but then nothing happened. The message was never delivered.
I tried to look at the exchange logs to see if there was "permissions denied" or even for a delivery attempt but gave up because I couldn't remember how to find the logs.
Any suggestions would be appreciated perhaps a howto link or something?
This is a wild shot into the air, but a shot ...nonetheless. Look in the bottom left hand corner of your Evolution screen. Is there a red "X" between two open connectors? If so, you're in local non-networking mode. Just click on that and it should "plug in" (close) and then you're connected to the network and mail will go out and mail will come in. I've done that to know by now. I usually find it after a carpet chewing session. :) Ric