Re: [Evolution] Exchange server mail group breakdown!

[Chris Boyce <chris boyce berbee com>]

Switched outgoing mail to SMTP.

Thanks for the suggestion.  Of course, I will try it out on much smaller
staff groups for a while :)


On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 10:21, Dan Winship wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 11:12, Chris Boyce wrote:
> > I'm using Evo 1.4.4 with Exchange Connector (same version).  Is there
> > any reason why sending mail to an email group (such as
> > all-staff company com) would cause some kind of monumental breakdown in
> > communication between Evo and Exchange, resulting in the same mail
> > sending over and over??  I checked my local folder Outbox, and nothing
> > appeared to be there, yet every 1-2 seconds, another copy would go out.
> >
> > I love Evolution, but now get to enjoy having 300 co-workers point at me
> > and laugh >:0
> >
> > Is there a logical explanation?
>
> "Microsoft sucks"? :-/
>
> Someone else reported this once, but I assumed it was just something
> weird at his site (it doesn't happen here). It's definitely not anything
> that Evo is doing, because Evo doesn't even know that the address is the
> address of a group rather than a person. So Exchange must get confused
> in the case where you submit a message to a list via WebDAV or
> something? Blah.
>
> If SMTP is enabled on your Exchange server, then using that instead of
> Exchange for sending mail will probably fix the problem.
>
> -- Dan
-- 
Chris