Sending Mail to AD Exchange Enabled Groups

[John C. Welch]

On 4/29/08 8:20 AM, "Perbix, Michael" <PERBIX at lmsd.org> wrote:

>> From my experience, Exchange in and of itself is actually a good backend
>> (please no flaming, I am just putting out my opinion based on my use in our
>> environment) and we use it with our Macs using Entourage, Apple Mail Client,
>> Blackberry's, Motorola Q with ActiveSync (and soon iPhone), Outlook Web
>> Access and of course Outlook and everyone gets along quite merrily.
> 
> The biggest issue that I see when mail refuses to be sent (and this can be
> verified by looking at Exchange logs) is that mail coming from unauthenticated
> users could look like a relay and be stopped or the user sending mail to the
> group does not have permissions.
> 
> If the user CAN send mail to the group from Outlook or Outlook Web Acess, then
> they most certainly should be able to from Entourage.  Make sure that
> Entourage is set up as an Exchange client (when you create the account in
> Entourage check the little box that says "My account is hosted on Exchange".

Yep. All you need is DAV/OWA and LDAP enabled, and E'rage works. If you're
using E'rage 2008 and your machines are bound to Active Directory, you can
even use Kerb, and have E'rage be part of Single - Signon, which is more
than a little nice.

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John C. Welch         Writer/Analyst
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