Exchange mailboxes with Apple Mail/iPhone

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I'm thinking of upgrading my business email to an exchange mailbox so that I can have push email, like I do with my MobileMe account. I'd rather keep it separate from my personal account, otherwise I'd just forward my mail to that account. I'd also prefer to keep using Apple Mail as opposed to Entourage.

I can't find out enough information though to work out whether an exchange mailbox will work well with Apple Mail and/or iPhone. MobileMe syncs everything perfectly, as is the case with an Exchange mailbox and Outlook from what I can gather, but I'm hoping someone can tell me how well an Exchange mailbox will work for a non Windows user, any bugs/limitations to look out for, or does it do everything required of it?

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Hi Dman!
I have recently added my work exchange account to my iPhone/apple Mail and like you use MobileMe for all my private stuff and contacts etc.
Performance wise it is good - you can sync it all normally and push works great. The only bug I have found is moving emails from one folder to another on the exchange account - the only way round it is to have a 'movement' folder stored locally for you to copy the mail into before dropping it into another folder in exchange.
Obviously it is only a new addition to mail so make sure you have the most up to date version (not sure if you need the new OSX first).
You will need to know your outlook web access server details and I have mine set up on exchange imap - your systems admin will need to enable your exchange account for IMAP access.

Cowasaki is the Mac man round 'ere.
Good luck :thumbs:
 
Exchange already supports push email if you have it switched on at the server end. You need to install Snow Leopard for it to work nicely on a Mac but the iphone should work fine as long as the back end it in place.

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Thanks, I've just purchased and installed SL but have now been toying with the idea of ditching Mail and using Entourage instead, but the flip side of my original question would be how well Entourage syncs with iCal and Address Book.

I guess I'll have to have a play with both and see which looks best overall.
 
I find that entourage is pants mate....

It uses IMAP to do anything so if you delete 3000 messages it removed them one at a time..... Mail now uses MAPI so treats it as 1 big delete.

I have been on SL for a couple of weeks now and it does seem to manage everything fine calendar syncs fine and contacts now work even better.

Stick with mail till you find something that you do not like/want as entourage is poo.
 
Firstly, this depends on the version of Exchange that is being used. Version 2003 SP2 onwards is a bare minimum for push mail. Then, what protocols are enabled. I'm not a fan of IMAP, POP3 or SMTP (running on Exchange) so support on MAC from my Exchange system is limited. YMMV.
 
Thanks for the replies, I think I'll just stick with Apple Mail and just have the iPhone fetch my emails from my work domain every half an hour, £65 seems a lot of money when all I need an exchange mailbox for anyway is the push.
 
Another option is GoogleMail, they announced today that it will support Push mail on iPhone and Windows Mobile:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/23/gmail_push/
From the gist of the article, it seems that the GMail server presents itself as an Exchange server in order to get this working, so you may be able to hook the OSX Mail app up to it as well.
 
Jim.R said:
Another option is GoogleMail, they announced today that it will support Push mail on iPhone and Windows Mobile:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/23/gmail_push/
From the gist of the article, it seems that the GMail server presents itself as an Exchange server in order to get this working, so you may be able to hook the OSX Mail app up to it as well.
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I use MobileMe for my personal mail which for me works flawlessly. Google would only give me a personal mailbox which I already have, I was talking about my business mail which is a @mydomain.co.uk address, which obviously I need to keep, but to be honest it's no real hardship having to fetch rather than push.
 
Google Apps will let you manage mail for your domain. I think you have to pay though.
 
You can have Google Apps for free, which allows you to use your domain, but it isn't meant for businesses.

I've got to work out if I can merge lots of addresses into one google account
 
Right, spent the last couple of hours checking out Google Apps, it's amazing! Works fantastically with my work domain and alongside MobileMe, push email all round now and perfectly synced work and personal calendars too. As I'm just a one man band I can get away with doing it for free.

Thanks for the suggestions!
 
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