Out of Office responses to incoming email are an incredibly useful thing to have with any mail server. In Microsoft Exchange, these are sent by the server on behalf of each user when the user has enabled them. Out of Office messages can be configured using the Exchange web portal or using a standard mail client, which has up until now, usually be Outlook. In Lion, Apple has built in an Out of Office setting in Mail.app. To configure an Out of Office message using Mail in Mac OS X 10.7, first configure the Mail client to communicate with the Exchange server. Then open Mail.app from /Applications. Right-click on the name…
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Design Considerations: Exchange 2007 and the Mac
In Exchange 2007, the Client Access Server (CAS) role accepts connections from clients in order to allow them access to the Exchange Server infrastructure (mailboxes, public folders, GAL, etc). CAS accepts connections from: POP3 and/or IMAP4 clients Outlook Web Access (OWA) and/or OWA Light clients Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) clients Entourage falls into this category, and so when you are deploying Exchange 2007 alongside Entourage you will point your clients at your host running CAS. This is a change from previous versions, where you could enable IIS on any host and point clients there; however, it is similar in that CAS is very similar to the front end functionality that this…
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Mac OS X: Setting up Outgoing Accounts with Mail.app
Incoming and outgoing mail are handled a bit differently from one another in Mail.app. This is helpful as you can have multiple outgoing accounts even if you only have one incoming accounts, useful if you move between a lot of different networks. To setup a new SMTP account, open the Accounts pane of the Mail.app preferences and choose Edit Server List… from the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): field. At the Server List screen click on the “+” icon and enter a description for the account. This can be anything to help the end user remember what this account is meant for. Then type in the name or IP address of…