Monday, October 29, 2007

Re: Email questions

While this is far beyond my expertise, I suspect you could sort out
many of the issues were you to post this to the MACENTERPRISE
Listserv located at http://lists.psu.edu/archives/macenterprise.html

HTH

Regards,

Carl Feucht
Indianhead International School
Seoul, South Korea

On Oct 27, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Carl Campion wrote:

> Hello lists,
>
> I've posted on this topic before and thought I'd inquire one more
> time before I give up and take another path.
>
> We've had mixed results using the Apple Mail program with the
> school's Exchange Server. There are so many inconsistencies that
> baffle me to no end. For example:
>
> 1) On the G4 in my office it works well. The only hitch is in the
> morning as it loads the Inbox, very slow
>
> 2) On the iBooks with PHD accounts:
>
> On some Books it can be configured using only the name of the
> mail server rather than the full name: mail.school.com
>
> On others it works only when the mail.school.com name is used
>
> Today out of desperation I tried the IP address 10.1.xx.xx and it
> work although there is still the dreaded loading of the inbox which
> is slow. At that point it only quits when force quit is used.
>
> When used in combination with Noteshare it is a great tool for
> mailing lab notebooks.
>
>
> There also appears to be a location/model issue. We have few issues
> in my Chem lab with MacBooks vs. the Bio lab across the hall with
> G3/G4 iBOOKs. All base stations are set to be bridges, they are not
> handing out addresses. All iBOOKs use static addressing.
>
> Perhaps it is time to throw up the white flag and move to Entourage.
>
> thanks
>
> Carl Campion
> Archmere Academy
>
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