Re: Thunderbird and MS Exchange Server 2003

Martin Kaul wrote:

> Normaly in our company the user should use Outlook 2000. But for several 
> reasons I want to still use Thunderbird ;-)
> 
> Which protocol is used by Outlook 2000 to access the Exchange Server and 
> is it possible to tell Thunderbird to use the same mechanism for 
> accessing the Exchange Server? 

There's no MAPI interface from within T'bird. You have to use either 
IMAP, or POP3.  You may want to try POP3 with messages left on the 
server (assuming they've enabled POP3).

It would be "real nice" if the MAPI component from Evolution (which has 
apparently been open-sourced by Novell) were to find its way into T'bird..

(I would just work on your admins to see if they'll enable IMAP4; tell 
them that they "broke" the mail server when they moved it :-), and 
explain that they need to turn on IMAP4 "like the old one" :-) :-). IT 
guys are so reactive..)