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Privoxy, Entourage 2004, and Exchange interaction Apps
I use Privoxy, and had been using Entourage X as my calendaring and email solution. I recently bought Office 2004 and decided to upgrade to Entourage 2004. After launching Entourage 2004 and trying to connect to the Exchange server, Entourage began telling me that my password / login credentials were bad, even though I hadn't changed them. It turns out that Entourage 2004 now uses webdav to connect to the Exchange server (using http), and that Privoxy was blocking it. Entourage X used IMAP, so there was no interaction with Privoxy.

The solution to this problem is to edit your network configuration in System Preferences and disallow use of the proxy for the domain in which your Exchange server resides. For example, if your Exchange server is fooserver@foo.com, you will want to open System Preferences -> Network, select your network configuration, and click Configure. Then, select the Proxies tab, and in the text box for "Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts & Domains," you would enter "foo.com" and then save your settings. This will ensure that your mail traffic doesn't get filtered by the Privoxy proxy server.

This behavior was very insidious to diagnose. Be sure to edit each one of your networking configurations. When I had originally configured Privoxy, I had only enabled it for my Airport connection. Therefore, Entourage 2004 worked on for my ethernet connection, but not my wireless -- and I thought my VPN connection was the issue.
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Privoxy, Entourage 2004, and Exchange interaction
Authored by: audiokid on Sep 01, '04 12:27:29PM

I have a different issue. I use Entourage X at work, as we have an Exchange server. I also use it for my .mac account, over IMAP, because our proxy does allow that traffic. However, E'rage X allows me to control proxy settings per account. In E'rage 2004, it's all system based. My problem is, in E'rage 2004, .mac won't work at all anymore, and I can only receive mail from Exchange, I can't send. It tells me my account settings are incorrect.

Any ideas? Would love an email if anyone has input on this. audioboy@mac.com



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Privoxy, Entourage 2004, and Exchange interaction
Authored by: lrosenstein on Sep 01, '04 03:13:40PM

It probably would have been easier to edit the privoxy config to not mess with connections to the Exchange server. That would then apply to every networking config.

Try the URL http://config.privoxy.org/ to get to the configuration pages.



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