Evolution, Exchange, and outgoing mail: setup issues?

[Rick Stevens]

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
> 
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