Re: SM Exchange server

2011-08-02 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)

 Re recently went over to an MS Exchange server at work and I changed
 my E-mail from POP to IMAP to support it. All this happened with SM
 2.2 as well.

 Since then I have had messages that come up blank and messages where
 I can't see the attachments. Both look fine in the web client but
 not on SM. I have not seen these kinds of issues before.  I don't
 even know where to start to track this down or fix it. Any ideas on
 how to get the attachments to show?  It doesn't happen on all
 e-mail, just some.

 Is this a SM 2.2 issue? An IMAP issue? A Avast issue?  Does SM just
 not play nicely with Exchange? Does Thunderbird play any nicer?

I have experienced exactly the same behaviour (using Seamonkey older
than 2.2 : e.g., 2.0.14) ever since my IMAP provider performed an
exchange upgrade to Exchange 2010; prior to that (running, I think,
Exchange 2003) there had been no problems.  I have reported the
problem to the server administration team, but as (a) mine is a
grade and favour account, and (b) IMAP is not a formal part of
their offering, I do not expect the problem to be resolved in the
near future.  For what it's worth, moving the offending message
to an otherwise empty folder can sometimes allow it to be seen
and/or the attachment accessed.


 I'm wondering if this is going to force me over to Outlook?

Wouldn't seppuku be a less painful option ?

Philip Taylor
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Re: SM Exchange server

2011-08-02 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 01/08/2011 11:19, hawker told the world:
 Re recently went over to an MS Exchange server at work and I changed my 
 E-mail from POP to IMAP to support it. All this happened with SM 2.2 as 
 well.
 
 Since then I have had messages that come up blank and messages where I 
 can't see the attachments. Both look fine in the web client but not on 
 SM. I have not seen these kinds of issues before.  I don't even know 
 where to start to track this down or fix it. Any ideas on how to get the 
 attachments to show?  It doesn't happen on all e-mail, just some.
 
 Is this a SM 2.2 issue? An IMAP issue? A Avast issue?  Does SM just not 
 play nicely with Exchange? Does Thunderbird play any nicer?
 
 I'm wondering if this is going to force me over to GASP - Outlook?

In my experience, Microsoft does not really put a lot of effort into
IMAP. After all these years, the IMAP support in Outlook 2010 is still
lacking compared to free products. Their goal, after all, is to push you
into a fully-MS solution (Exchange + Outlook) using their proprietary
protocol.

I wouldn't be surprised if the IMAP in Exchange also had issues.

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Re: SM Exchange server

2011-08-02 Thread hawker

On 8/2/2011 4:43 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:

  Re recently went over to an MS Exchange server at work and I changed
  my E-mail from POP to IMAP to support it. All this happened with SM
  2.2 as well.
 
  Since then I have had messages that come up blank and messages where
  I can't see the attachments. Both look fine in the web client but
  not on SM. I have not seen these kinds of issues before. I don't
  even know where to start to track this down or fix it. Any ideas on
  how to get the attachments to show? It doesn't happen on all
  e-mail, just some.
 
  Is this a SM 2.2 issue? An IMAP issue? A Avast issue? Does SM just
  not play nicely with Exchange? Does Thunderbird play any nicer?

I have experienced exactly the same behaviour (using Seamonkey older
than 2.2 : e.g., 2.0.14) ever since my IMAP provider performed an
exchange upgrade to Exchange 2010; prior to that (running, I think,
Exchange 2003) there had been no problems. I have reported the
problem to the server administration team, but as (a) mine is a
grade and favour account, and (b) IMAP is not a formal part of
their offering, I do not expect the problem to be resolved in the
near future. For what it's worth, moving the offending message
to an otherwise empty folder can sometimes allow it to be seen
and/or the attachment accessed.


Thanx Philip,

We did indeed go with Exchange 2011 I think.  I tried moving to a new 
folder and it hung on downloading e-mail but no help.
I do like a few things, the biggest is my phone and computer are now in 
sync with no tricks and filters. I also like that the exchange server 
translates those pesky winmail.dat files back to attachments for me. 
But the number of small issues that were not there when I had a Linux 
POPed server are really annoying.


I guess I might have to try seppuku ;-)



 
  I'm wondering if this is going to force me over to Outlook?

Wouldn't seppuku be a less painful option ?

Philip Taylor


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