Entourage 2004 vs Exchange 2000: bad news

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Matt Bacon

Well, I've had to revert to Entourage X. Entourage 2004 just will not play
nice with our our installation of Exchange Server 2000.

Somewhat randomly, it appears to corrupt mails or headers, breaking single
mails into many parts. Looking at the tracking tools built into the mail
set-up, my admin can't see any information about mails generated by
Entourage 2004 -- subjects, delivery notices, progress through the system.
Every field that is filled for Windows users is blank: we can't even get
message-IDs on my mails, though viewing the sent headers in Entourage 2002
shows them.

There's worse to come, though. Some mails bounce around in queues for hours,
literally clogging the system. These are being blamed for a back-up failure
last night, and corruption in the info store.

If you don't have these problems, fine. But unless you're sure you don't,
I'd recommend playing it safe and going back to Entourage X if you're using
Exchange 2000, and waiting for an acknowledgement of the issue and fix from
MS (or until your company upgrades to Exchange 2003)

Best regards,
Matt
 
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