On May 31, 2006, at 6:05 AM, Dr Trevor J. Hutley wrote: > > Dennis - the name of the mail server is variously jicn.com, jicex > or 10.20.1.7 > > No telnet connection can be established from my desk in the College: > [...] > > PING: this works fine: > > [...] > So the server is there, but the access is not. That is my > conclusion. Is that how you see it? Yes. If you are attempting to connect from within the campus network (your Powerbook also has a private 10.20.nn.nn. address), then there should not be a firewall in the path that would be blocking access to the port. That would mean the exchange server is not configured with IMAP able to respond on port 143. I'll answer further off list. -- Dennis Fazio dfz at mac.com