[Ti] Exchange Account - from MAIL 2.0.7

[Dennis Fazio]

On May 10, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Dr Trevor J. Hutley wrote:

>
>> I think they may have turned off IMAP support or something along  
>> the path, like a firewall, is impeding access to the IMAP port  
>> (port 143). IMAP has to be enabled and available for Apple Mail to  
>> use the Exchange server.
>
> As I understand it, 8080 is currently the ONLY port open to the  
> outside world....... so that seems consistent with what you state  
> above.

They're probably only permitting web mail access from the outside as  
a policy.

> Is there any security risk for hte College if they open port 143 ?

If they direct it to the Exchange mail server only, there should be  
no problem. Only IMAP commands will be recognized and responded to on  
that port by that one server. They still may not do it, however,  
citing a overly restrictive policy. In that case, see if they have  
VPN access you can use. It will add an extra connection and  
authentication step, but should get you into the interior network.
>
>> You can't create a new Exchange account because I think Mail only  
>> supports one Exchange account at a time.
>
> I did not know that.  Thanks.  Any idea why is there such a  
> limitation ?

I think I saw that the Exchange account will filter out a lot of the  
non-mail Exchange traffic automatically. It can probably only do that  
for one account. Not really sure, though.

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Dennis Fazio
dfz at mac.com