Apple Mail in Panther does have Exchange support to the extent that it does ignore non-mail folders (as someone else mentioned from posted Apple info). This means it ignores folders like the Calendar and Journal folders. (This is helpful if you, like me, sometimes accidentally drag whole folders into stupid places, like the Calendar folder, and wonder why your Exchange quota is so high.) It still lets you get to Public Folders, if your Exchange server provides them to IMAP clients.

However, Apple Mail also likes to index and update the unread count for your Public Folders, too (assuming you have those account preferences enabled) ... and it takes me a long time for my initial connection because of this.

Still, Mail has more flexible sending for me. I get errors every time I send mail with Entourage, apparently because it defaults to secure passwords, which my current (non-Exchange) SMTP server does not allow. (Long story.) I get the errors for each message.

With Exchange accounts in Apple Mail, I have more flexible sending options ... I can choose the server, the method of authentication, and SSL/port options independently of those I've chosen for the incoming Exchange server.

Apple Mail is not scriptable for Exchange account setup, while Entourage is (and nicely so, I might add). We developed a cool Studio application to set up mail accounts in various mail clients at my university, and took advantage of this.

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Jeremy Reichman


On Jan 9, 2004, at 9:27 AM, Roger Zender wrote:


Is this Apple's mail.app supposed to have more advanced / robust connection
with Exchange than Entourage, or just just another IMAP connection? In the
end, all I want to do is to be able to share calendars in Entourage, like I
do now in Outlook, and I will be a HAPPY camper!

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