Well, it looks like the problem has magically gone away. Either the sysadmin changed the login (removing the offending character) or it was gremlins.
Thanks anyway, Nick Nick Cummings wrote: > I have a bit of a weird question. A friend has an account on an MS > exchange server. She wants to get her mail using a smartphone which, > coincidentally, does not play well with the server*, and the server will > not allow her for forward mail to another account. Would it be > technically possible (setting aside for a moment whether it's a good > idea) for me to use (cheap or, preferably, free) software on a linux box > to connect to the server (given the appropriate login info), get the > mail, and then make it available for her (via, say, POP3 or IMAP)? I > thought evolution (and perhaps some other linux clients) could connect > and get mail from an exchange server, but I have no idea if there's > software to allow this sort of man in the middle function. Is there > some other obvious solution? > > Thanks for your thoughts, > > Nick > > * It doesn't play well in the sense that her phone doesn't support > certain characters in the login name which her login requires in this > case, and apparently they refuse to simply change her login name. >
