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John Ingram
Sorry if this has already been covered, but I'm one who had been
having all those really tought problems with running Outlook 2001 in
Classic mode on a G5 running Panther. My G5 cannot be booted in OS 9
in its current Panther configuration (I guess -- is this a Panther
"feature"?), and I cannot access TCP/IP Preferences in Classic mode.
Anyway, I had tried the Hosts file solution that is mentioned all over
the place, and nothing. My Hosts file entries were obviously working,
because Internet Explorer worked with them in classic mode.
I finally realized during yet another attempt to get it to work that,
during the connection test, the exchange server name was automatically
changed to the name that my Exchange server calls itself. Let's say
that I had decided to call it "buckwheat" in my Hosts file (because my
experience with hosts files is that you can call things pretty much
whatever you want. My Exchange server calls itself , let's say,
ALFALFA. So when I do the connection test to buckwheat, it works, but
it pops ALFALFA into the server name field.
Next time I try to do anything with Outlook, it looks to the server
name field and sees ALFALFA, which is not in my Hosts file, and fails.
Silliness. So, on a whim, I added ALFALFA as a CNAME alias in the OS
9 Hosts file. I tried it again and expected it to fail, and it did.
I restarted Classic mode, then sort of expected it to work, and it
DID! Yee-hah!
So, in summary... MY solution (not necessarily yours) was to call my
alias the exact same thing (case sensitive) that the exchange server
calls itself in the server name field after the connection test.
By the way, if you want Outlook to act like you've never run it before
so you can run the connection test again, delete the "Exchange
Preferences" file and the "Exchange Profiles" directory in /System
Folder/Preferences.
One more thing... after a bit of evaluating Outlook in comparison with
Entourage, which I have been using for quite some time, I have a few
notes. Any feedback on any of these would be helpful.
1) No automatic address book lookup when typing names in the addressee
fields of e-mail messages?
2) Took me forever to find anything resembling "Check for new mail
every N minutes". I finally found something in the "Microsoft
Exchange Server" service, which is "check for changes every N
minutes", but it doesn't seem to be doing what I expect. In
Entourage, there's no hiding from a new message. It shows up
immediately.
3) A very wimpy new mail notification sound, when I finally got it to
play, and it doesn't seem to be configurable.
I do want to use Outlook, though, since the whole company has Outlook
and they already have difficulty understanding my Mac fetish or
whatever. There are a lot of things I can't see correctly in
Entourage and which work just fine in Outlook. So I hope I can
resolve the aforementioned issues.
Good Luck,
John
having all those really tought problems with running Outlook 2001 in
Classic mode on a G5 running Panther. My G5 cannot be booted in OS 9
in its current Panther configuration (I guess -- is this a Panther
"feature"?), and I cannot access TCP/IP Preferences in Classic mode.
Anyway, I had tried the Hosts file solution that is mentioned all over
the place, and nothing. My Hosts file entries were obviously working,
because Internet Explorer worked with them in classic mode.
I finally realized during yet another attempt to get it to work that,
during the connection test, the exchange server name was automatically
changed to the name that my Exchange server calls itself. Let's say
that I had decided to call it "buckwheat" in my Hosts file (because my
experience with hosts files is that you can call things pretty much
whatever you want. My Exchange server calls itself , let's say,
ALFALFA. So when I do the connection test to buckwheat, it works, but
it pops ALFALFA into the server name field.
Next time I try to do anything with Outlook, it looks to the server
name field and sees ALFALFA, which is not in my Hosts file, and fails.
Silliness. So, on a whim, I added ALFALFA as a CNAME alias in the OS
9 Hosts file. I tried it again and expected it to fail, and it did.
I restarted Classic mode, then sort of expected it to work, and it
DID! Yee-hah!
So, in summary... MY solution (not necessarily yours) was to call my
alias the exact same thing (case sensitive) that the exchange server
calls itself in the server name field after the connection test.
By the way, if you want Outlook to act like you've never run it before
so you can run the connection test again, delete the "Exchange
Preferences" file and the "Exchange Profiles" directory in /System
Folder/Preferences.
One more thing... after a bit of evaluating Outlook in comparison with
Entourage, which I have been using for quite some time, I have a few
notes. Any feedback on any of these would be helpful.
1) No automatic address book lookup when typing names in the addressee
fields of e-mail messages?
2) Took me forever to find anything resembling "Check for new mail
every N minutes". I finally found something in the "Microsoft
Exchange Server" service, which is "check for changes every N
minutes", but it doesn't seem to be doing what I expect. In
Entourage, there's no hiding from a new message. It shows up
immediately.
3) A very wimpy new mail notification sound, when I finally got it to
play, and it doesn't seem to be configurable.
I do want to use Outlook, though, since the whole company has Outlook
and they already have difficulty understanding my Mac fetish or
whatever. There are a lot of things I can't see correctly in
Entourage and which work just fine in Outlook. So I hope I can
resolve the aforementioned issues.
Good Luck,
John