> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Dunn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 9:27 AM
> To: John Groseclose
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Diald and Microsoft Outlook 97
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 07:28:38PM -0700, John Groseclose wrote:
> > I'd agree. If you're connecting to an MS Mail Post Office, you're not
> > connecting via TCP/IP - it uses one of those "other" protocols, like
> > NetBEUI or IPX (I forget which.)
>
> The application has no bearing on which network protocol gets used. If
> you've set up your workstation to use TCP/IP, that's the protocol used
> to connect to the post office. (NetBEUI is NetBIOS over TCP/IP and is
> unroutable, IPX/SPX is the Novell equivalent of UDP/TCP).
>
[Abreu, Paulo]
I totally agree.
> I use TCP/IP to talk to the postoffice on my LAN.
>
> That said, you may need to bring up the link first to your post office
> before you try and send/recieve mail.
[Abreu, Paulo]
Now, I wonder what exactly you mean by "bring up the link first to
your post office".
Before running Outlook I make sure the connection from the Linux box
to the "ISP" (actually it is not an ISP, it is the headquarters of the
company, but let's simply call it an "ISP") is up. For instance, I open
Netscape and browse some URL, or I ping some address.
Would MS Post Office need some "special" type of "initialization"?
In fact I would love to know what happens between Outlook and the
Post Office during this initial connection. Any pointers?
> The 2nd-most optimal solution,
> of course, is to have your NT post office on a local machine (the
> optimal solution is to install a proper SMTP server (sendmail, smail,
> qmail, etc) and do mail through that.
[Abreu, Paulo]
That would not be a good solution to me because when I am travelling
I have to check my mail from hotels and I wouldn't have an easy way to do
this if all my mail were at the branch office (where I work), instead of at
the company's headquarters (where the NT Post Office is).
> > >On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> Does anybody have a positive experience using Microsoft Outlook 97
> (not
> > >> Outlook Express) as the mail client connecting to a Microsoft Mail
> > >> Postoffice?
> > >> It works for me but not in a consistent way.
> > >> Many times when I already have the connection up, I run Outlook 97
> and after
> > >> a few seconds I get a dialog box asking me to select 1 out of 3
> options: (a)
> > >> connection via LAN, (b) connection via dial-up, (c) work offline.
> > >> My experience taught me that when this dialog box pops-up it's
> because
> > >> Outlook attempted to connect to the Postoffice but failed.
> > >> When I am connecting via modem (on my PC) I rarely get this message
> box, but
> > >> when I am connecting via the LAN (diald being my "router") I get this
> > >> message very frequently.
> > >> The problem with getting the message box is that Outlook was not able
> to
> > >> find the Postoffice, so I am unable to either send or receive
> e-mails.
> > >> Any ideas?
> > >> By the way, diald is version 0.16 (that's what it says in the man
> page).
> > >> Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> > --
> > John Groseclose
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> >
> >
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