Apple Mail and Microsoft Exchange

In: Software|Windows

15 Apr 2009

Today I tried to connect Apple Mail to our Exchange Server. I found out that though Apple Mail says “Exchange protocol” it tries to connect over IMAP4 to the server. The error message that port 143 was not available for a connection gave another hint.

So I had to configure the IMAP4 protocol on our server. Damn Microsoft Exchange on Windows 2003 Small Business Server did not allow me to activate IMAP4 protocol. It timed out and told me that the service did not answer fast enough and I should check the event log.

The event log did not show more information. After searching a bit I found out that the IMAP4 service was disabled. I set it to automatic and started it. After that Apple Mail was able to connect to the Exchange server.

2 Responses to Apple Mail and Microsoft Exchange

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Rich

August 5th, 2009 at 11:23 pm

Thanks for putting this on your blog — helped me.

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Paul from Internet Marketing

November 18th, 2009 at 6:13 pm

Great blog!!! Very informative and inciteful. Excellent!!!

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