[plug] Sendmail mail to MS Exchange

[Mark Nold]

Can't connect via telnet to port 25 either. I actually thought that Exchange 
clients used something other than SMTP for sending (which is all i care 
about).

Any more ideas?

mn


On Fri,  8 Jun 2001 15:43, Christian wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:32:18AM +0800, Mark Nold wrote:
> > What would i need for this to work?
> >
> > Just doing a
> >
> > echo "Hello There" | sendmail mark.nold at exchangeserver
> >
> > (or modify the aliases and then send a mail to that user)
> >
> > gets me a Connection Refused by exchangeserver
> >
> > My understanding is that sendmail doesn't do IMAP... or am i missing
> > something really trivial here?
>
> I don't know anything about Exchange but you can't send email with IMAP.
> IMAP for clients to access already-delivered email stored on a server.
> Sendmail doesn't do IMAP because sendmail is for delivering email.
> There are IMAP servers (and clients) for Linux but that's not what
> you're looking for here.
>
> Can you telnet to the smtp port (25) on the Exchange server from the
> Linux box?  Based on the message above it looks like the Exchange server
> isn't listening on port 25 or maybe there's some sort of firewall
> blocking access.  (Remember, I know *nothing* about Exchange.)