How do I point a mail client at Microsoft outlook?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 18:39 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Michael Hennebry writes:
> 
> > For work, I have had to use Microsoft outlook for e-mail.
> > I'd like to be able to get at it through either
> > KMail or evolution on my home F13 machine.
> > I've tried to set up both without success.
> > That I've never used a mail client before probably doesn't help.
> >
> > With KMail I'm stuck when I get to
> > Server Innformation
> > Incoming server:
> > Outgoing server:
> > Use local delivery
> 
> Ask your helpdesk at work for IMAP and SMTP connection and login information  
> for your Exchange account.
> 
> There's a slim chance that you'll get lucky and they won't react as if  
> you've grown a second head on your shoulders, and give you that; then you'll  
> just plug that into the above dialogs.
> 
> If your Exchange server does not have IMAP and SMTP enabled, you're out of  
> luck.

Not entirely. Exchange supports something called OWA (Outlook Web
Access), and Evolution can talk to Exchange servers outside of IMAP.

poc