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?

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 15:04 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:23 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > 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? That's correct. Any account using the Exchange-based accounts will be sent through the Exchange server. There is no "outgoing" server option (for that matter, there's no "incoming" server option...it's all Exchange). If you are unable to send mail via Exchange, it could be an authentication issue. There's generally two, one for incoming and one for outgoing (it'll ask you to authenticate when you click "Send"). If you check the "Remember password" box before you enter that outgoing authentication, it should work from then on.

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:27 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 15:04 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:23 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > > 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? > > That's correct. Any account using the Exchange-based accounts will > be > sent through the Exchange server. There is no "outgoing" server > option > (for that matter, there's no "incoming" server option...it's all > Exchange). > > If you are unable to send mail via Exchange, it could be an > authentication issue. There's generally two, one for incoming and > one > for outgoing (it'll ask you to authenticate when you click "Send"). > If > you check the "Remember password" box before you enter that outgoing > authentication, it should work from then on. > Yes, it did prompt me for a password for permission to enter and scan my exchange account folders, and yes, I was prompted for a password when replying to a message or sending a new message and I did fire off a test message, watched it zip through "On This Computer"->outbox, but then nothing happened. The message was never delivered. I tried to look at the exchange logs to see if there was "permissions denied" or even for a delivery attempt but gave up because I couldn't remember how to find the logs. Any suggestions would be appreciated perhaps a howto link or something?