Entourage X, Exchange 5.5 and Authenticated SMTP

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Trish

Does anyone know about development plans (or backwards capabilities)
for Entourage X for the Mac. Here is my two problems:

1) run an exchange server in mixed mode with IMAP not working for some
reason

2) use a UNIX based authenticated SMTP (outgoing mail server)

Of course we could fix IMAP by going to native mode but still this
doesn't solve the problem of the authenticated SMTP. You need a place
to login to authenticate before you can SEND email anywhere.

Any exchange admin out there with an idea?

/Trish
 
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Jeremy Reichman

Does anyone know about development plans (or backwards capabilities)
for Entourage X for the Mac. Here is my two problems:
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I would not expect backwards compatibility with Exchange 5.5 from Entourage,
except as an IMAP/POP and SMTP client. Why? Entourage takes advantage of
WebDAV to communicate with the Exchange server for several functions. I
can't tell you what the WebDAV capabilities of Exchange 5.5 are/were, but I
wouldn't expect them to be as full as Exchange 2000 or 2003 -- if they are
present at all.

Entourage 2004 takes more advantage of WebDAV, to the point where it doesn't
use IMAP/POP to receive mail or SMTP to send mail -- when you use the
Exchange account type. That way, if your Exchange administrators have not
enabled IMAP/POP/SMTP, you can still use Entourage 2004.
1) run an exchange server in mixed mode with IMAP not working for some
reason
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We have run Entourage 10.1.4 against an Exchange 2000 server in mixed mode,
and just recently switched to native mode. (By mixed and native mode, I mean
the modes imposed by reliance on NT domains vs. Active Directory.) I won't
say we haven't had problems, but nothing that I would attribute to mixed vs.
native mode.
2) use a UNIX based authenticated SMTP (outgoing mail server)
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You can use any SMTP server with an Exchange account in Entourage 10.1.4.
However, it looks like it is expecting SMTP services from an Exchange server
-- and thus you may not be getting compatibility in terms of the
authentication type with another SMTP server. In doing so, I believe it is
defaulting to Microsoft's "Secure Password Authentication."

In our experience, we are able to *send* mail from Entourage 10.1.4's
Exchange accounts through our UNIX or VMS mail servers (PMDF Mail), but we
either:

1. Must disable authentication on the Entourage client side, or

2. Must get three authentication dialogs per message sent (and on the third
try, the message goes out successfully).


Do you know if your UNIX SMTP server supports Microsoft's "Secure Password
Authentication?" My understanding from a bit of Googling is that this is
really NTLMv1. If you can enable that -- to support Entourage as well as
Outlook and Outlook Express/Win -- then you may not get auth failures as
above.
 
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