IMAP: Configuring Outlook Express as a Client
Support knowledgebase (hacht_imap_outlook_einrichten)
Applies to
SuSE Imap-Server: Version all
Situation:
You want to configure Outlook Express as a client for the IMAP server.
Procedure:
Add a new entry for Mail (IMAP) and Directory Service, respectively, in
-->Tools --> Accounts.
- Mail:
First, enter the account name and password as well as the IMAP
server's full computer name
as the incoming mail server and outgoing mail server. The root folder path is
"INBOX".
Now activate the boxes
"Check for new messages in all folders" and
"Store special folders on IMAP server".
By doing this, you can also set the "sent items" path to, for example, "sent-mail".
- Directory Service:
Enter the full computer name as server name.
Your domain's BASE-DN, as specified in the set up mask (e.g., dc=suse,dc=de),
is needed for the search basis.
- From SuSE eMail Server II on: Displaying Shared Folders
Outlook Express does not display shared folders. Try this work-around:
Create a second account with the same name
and do not fill in the field "Root folder path". Once this account has
been created,
select it at 'Tools'-> 'Accounts' and subsequently rename it (e.g.,
as "shared folder").
MS Outlook Express admits folder names containing special
characters (e.g., umlauts).
These names are not RFC-compliant and the required conversion has not
been clearly defined.
The coding used by Microsoft for
this purpose is mostly unknown and it causes a folder called
"Entwürfe" to be represented
as "Entw&APw-rfe" in other mailers.
See also:
No access (timeoout) to the eMail Server using an external mail client
Keywords: IMAP, OUTLOOK, MAIL, E-MAIL, EMAIL
Categories:
SuSE Linux IMAP Server
SDB-hacht_imap_outlook_einrichten, Copyright SuSE Linux AG, Nürnberg, Germany
- Version: 23. Apr 2002
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