Re: [Evolution] Forwarding messages using rules

[Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist us>]

On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:26 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Can you explain how mail gets to external destinations, such as this
> list, if a) your firewall blocks external SMTP from your machine, and
> b) Exchange doesn't "offer" SMTP? (I'm not sure what you mean by
> "offer").

If you have an Exchange account, you can send email that way, through
the Exchange OWA interface, just the same way you get mail.  This goes
directly to the Exchange server over HTTP, just as if you'd entered the
email into your browser, and the Exchange server sends it out over SNMP
for you.  It does NOT require a local MTA on your system.

In fact, in me experience using the Exchange server as the MTA over OWA
is the only way to successfully do meeting invites in Evolution.  If you
try to send an Exchange meeting invite and you have your account set up
to use SMTP, it doesn't work.