On 8/22/05, James Wright
John Scott wrote:
If you can get to OWA form your desktop then you can use Evolution with Ximian Connector to get your email. If the mail admin only allows OWA from outside and requires MAPI inside (the mail admins do it where I work. Why???) then you're probably stuck with using Outlook under wine or from a MS Term Server/Citrix.
John
If it is allowed from the outside, but not the inside, why can't you use the external address to get to the server. When I setup laptops for outside sales, I test functionality by using the outside address (as they will be using their laptops from the outside). The request goes out over the Internet to the ISP, then comes right back and allows a login to the server. It might be worth a try.
James W
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OWA is an IIS application (IIS is a requirement and OWA is installed when Exchange is installed). As such, the exchange admins have blocked access to requests that originate from addresses on campus using IIS. The only way to access OWA is from outside of my section of the university. The only way around this would be to setup a proxy on the outside and then go through it, or get another dedicated line into my part of campus. Neither of these is likely to happen so I'm stuck. Since all the ips used are real addresses (no NAT), there is no external address to go to and then come back in, I'd end up going straight to the OWA box. John