Snow Leopard Mail and Exchange

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KenDRhyD

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I was thrilled to see Exchange support in Mail/Snow Leopard, but I am less than thrilled with the experience! I should note that my first tests were to set this up as an Exchange 2007 account; I have not yet attempted to use the Exchange IMAP type account, but shall try that later.

Setting it up was quite easy, and I was able to start retrieving emails immediately. Sending is another matter.

1. The sent emails do not show up in my Sent folder for that account, nor on any smart folders that I defined.

2. Multiple instances of the message are stored in the Drafts folder for some reason. There is always more than one message, and often more than two (once there were six copies of the message in the drafts!).

Despite this, the messages do appear to get sent!

Anyone have any ideas?
 
Open Mail and go to Mail's Preferences-Accounts and select your Exchange Account. See if there is a setting to keep Sent email for a time.
 
Satcomer said:
Open Mail and go to Mail's Preferences-Accounts and select your Exchange Account. See if there is a setting to keep Sent email for a time.
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There is setting to save sent email on the server (set) and when to remove sent email (never).

After some experimentation I have determined the following:

1. For Exchange 2007 accounts, Mail saves a WIP copy of the message in the Drafts folder for that account at various points; not certain if it is timed or not, but it seems that the longer one takes the more copies are saved. Only the shortest messages do not create a draft.

2. Sent email is displayed in Mail, but only once Mail has synced with the Exchange server at the next time after the message is sent.

3. The multiple draft documents are not automatically deleted from the Drafts folder when the mail is actually sent. I have to manually remove them.

Seems like a couple of relatively minor bugs.
 
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