On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:23 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > I got tired of KMail because for some reason or another it was somehow > capturing and sending duplicates back into the IMAP server. Also, it seems > darn slow when new email messages comes through forcing me to wait several > minutes for scan completion before I can even browse the email message. > > So, I decided to switch to another email client. I tried Thunderbird, but unfortunately > the IMAP implementation did not even list all of my sub folders as Kmail did so I gave > that one up in a hurry. > > Finally, I decided to try out evolution since my M$ Exchange server is my primary > email server and evolution has the exchange connector builtin for it. > > Everything seemed a cinch, that is I can connect and quicky see all my folders, > and other things such as to delete emails and so on. Fast and great! > > Unfortunatly, I cannot send email messages through it. > > I searched everywhere trying to figure out why I cannot send email messages > through evolution via the exchange connector, why, even when I looked into > the account setup, there is no "Outgoing Mail" tab for it - but reading various faqs > and so on, if I get this right, exchange connector is setup both for incomming and > outgoing, right? > > I even tried to setup another account for outgoing mail like I did with Kmail; > one account for incoming (IMAP), the other account for outgoing via local > sendmail. > > Any advice? ---- exchange connector requires exchange server but neither kmail nor thunderbird can make exchange connection so they use only standard imap & smtp protocols with exchange server. ditch the exchange connector on evolution and you should be fine Craig
