Entourage and IMAP4 Server Name

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acbiii

I am trying to configure Entourage on a W2K server net with Exchange
2k. I can't get the name to resolve, and was planning to use the IP
address of the server-as this works on outlook express-using it as an
IMAP client. In OE, authentication is required, too. Would there be
any problems known with this strategy? Can I ever find a way to get
the name to resolve or search?
Thanks!
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Hi,
I am trying to configure Entourage on a W2K server net with Exchange
2k. I can't get the name to resolve, and was planning to use the IP
address of the server-as this works on outlook express-using it as an
IMAP client.
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It could do the trick.
In OE, authentication is required, too. Would there be
any problems known with this strategy? Can I ever find a way to get
the name to resolve or search?
Thanks!
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I'm not quite sure I understand what you did. I can't get the server to
resolve automatically on our Exchange server with automatic setup, but I
have no problem if I use the manual setup. Are you sure you are using
the right address for the server ??? Couldn't it be a machine on a
different subdomain (it often is the problem) ??

Anyway, I don't see any good reason why specifying the IP directly
shouldn't work in any app.


Corentin
 
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acbiii

Thanks for the response. Can't be on a different machine as there is a
single mail server in the domain. I do have one problem in Error 1026
I posted a min ago, that is really annoying. It works, but I get an
error every time I go to get mail -and if there is or is not mail
going up or down.
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

acbiii said:
Thanks for the response. Can't be on a different machine as there is a
single mail server in the domain.
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Really weird... Did you try with the IP directly then ??

Corentin
 
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David Blaymires

Really weird... Did you try with the IP directly then ??

Corentin
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We've found that sometimes the server is not visible using its name, and
we've had to restart the DNS service on the W2K server before it becomes
visible again. No idea why though.

Specifying the server via the IP address has always worked for us, but will
only work if there is a static IP assigned to the server otherwise the IP
address will change when the server "leases" a new IP address from the DHCP
server.
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

David Blaymires said:
We've found that sometimes the server is not visible using its name, and
we've had to restart the DNS service on the W2K server before it becomes
visible again. No idea why though.
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So it could be an issue on the server side then...
Specifying the server via the IP address has always worked for us, but will
only work if there is a static IP assigned to the server otherwise the IP
address will change when the server "leases" a new IP address from the DHCP
server.
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Quite true, DHCP would break the settings :-\


Corentin
 
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