There are those who would have you believe that Aaron Brashears wrote: > Hi there. I am running woody, and have the sad requirement that I must > use the company's exchange server. I've been using netscape for a while, > and it works fine using the format 'domain/ntusername/mailboxname' for > access the imap gateway on the server. I've also tested mutt, and it's > imap support seems to work fine when accessing the server, but it takes > a lot of typing and the documentation for mutt suggests using fetchmail. > > So, after a quick apt-get install fetchmail fetchmailconf I have > fetchmail running, but I can't get the configuration right. When running > fetchmailconf I set up the server, and the user as > 'domain/ntusername/mailboxname', give it my password, and then set local > delivery to be my localhost account name. When I test fetchmail, the log > indicates that fetchmail recognizes NTLM, spews a lot of characters, and > then complains that I can't login. > > Is there trick I'm missing? I already tried ESR's reccomendation for > '/domain/ntusername/mailboxname' which also failed, and isn't the format > used in netscape or mutt. > > Thanks.
You might not even need to use NTLM to access the server, as Exchange servers accept plaintext authentication by default. If your NT account is the primary account for the mailbox, try just using your username and password or domain/username and password. IMAP is more complicated than POP3, but you can telnet in on port 143 to test your username and password: frodo:~$telnet mail.foobar.com 143 Trying 10.10.10.10... Connected to 10.10.10.10. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Microsoft Exchange IMAP4rev1 server version 5.5.2650.23 (MAILSERVER) ready a001 login username password a001 OK LOGIN completed. a002 logout * BYE Microsoft Exchange IMAP4rev1 server version 5.5.2650.23 signing off a002 OK LOGOUT completed. Connection closed by foreign host. frodo:~$
