Comments on The Mace's Musings: Exchange email on the iPhone?

There are a few options for reading/getting exchan...

2008-02-08T10:06:00.000-05:00

There are a few options for reading/getting exchange mail in other ways:

1) Use FetchExc to retrieve mail from your Exchange inbox via OWA and forward it to a SMTP server or mbox type file (gmail or yahoo are natural choices). You can use any SMTP server for replies and set your email address correctly. Some IT departments know its coming from outside and will block access to mail lists or maybe even normal addresses.

2) On Linux, use Evolution and its OWA connector (yum install evolution-connector)

3) On just about any platform you can always just run Windows XP etc under a VM and run the outlook client. With things like Parallels Coherence mode its not too bad a solution

Hi, just wondering if you could elaborate on what ...

2008-02-08T00:23:00.000-05:00

Hi, just wondering if you could elaborate on what other tools there are besides synchrona to download email from OWA and push it to an IMAP account? I currently leave a Mac on 24/7 anyway, so it wouldn't be a big deal for me to have a computer running for that.

thanks
Bhavesh
vesh@veshman.com

Thanks for the comment. I didn't even know if anyo...

2008-01-03T21:37:00.000-05:00

Thanks for the comment. I didn't even know if anyone was reading my ramblings.

Anyway, the Gmail approach is one that may work for some. With my company they do not allow Exchange rules to forward email outside of the company domain.

The other issue is that most mail lists and some of our other divisions disallow emails from outside of the company domain.

Along the same lines, there are publicly available tools to download email via OWA and push it into a POP/IMAP server. That approach would work as well and presumably you could choose something more private than Google.

Great Post, thanks. Another option for reading an...

2008-01-03T09:26:00.000-05:00

Great Post, thanks.

Another option for reading and writing, which again isn't exceptional because of security, is to forward your exchange email to a Gmail account dedicated specifically to your work account.

Within that Gmail account you can set up IMAP with the iPhone, and you can go and tweek the Gmail settings which gives you the option to change the address that your email sends from in addition to adding a signature if interested (so it looks like it's coming from John.Smith@CompanyXYZ instead of John.Smith@gmail).

I found this to be the fastest, and most consistent and reliable method to read and write exchange email, but, of course... there's no syncing.