no more windows

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Wed Jul 23 20:50:30 UTC 2008


Derek Broughton wrote:
> No, they have a completely inappropriate level of paranoia - almost all
> ports are blocked, unless they really could be used to infiltrate the local
> network; they absolutely trust McAfee will keep machines free of viruses -
> but if McAfee actually reports having caught and removed a virus, they'll
> want to take your machine away to disinfect it; and they remove anything
> that's attached to incoming mail whether it's executable or not...
>   
IIRC, Evolution uses a modified wrapper of OWA for accessing Exchange.  
So even if the network is firewalled you should be able to get Evolution 
to work regardless.  It's been a while since I"ve done that, they might 
have changed it since, but I was able to do exactly that for a company I 
worked for a few years back.


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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415






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