Retrieve MS Outlook account info from slaved drive

[paristotle]

NSLOOKUP can help you find the right mail server. That's what I meant. As for POP/IMAP I kind of thought it was the customers preference, and if he was on an Exchange server I assumed there would have been an administrator to give you what you needed.

Sorry I forgot to answer the other part of the question
Nslookup then set q=mx
This will give you the server name that holds the mx record

How would NSLOOKUP help to determine for a given email address: the email server addresses (it's not always in the same domain), protocol type (POP3/SMTP, IMAP, Exchange), port numbers, userIDs/passwords for each (they're not necessarily the same), SSL or not, etc, etc, etc.

What was needed was mentioned in the opening post of this thread.

 

[ProTech-MN]

NSLOOKUP can help you find the right mail server. That's what I meant. As for POP/IMAP I kind of thought it was the customers preference, and if he was on an Exchange server I assumed there would have been an administrator to give you what you needed.

Sorry I forgot to answer the other part of the question
Nslookup then set q=mx
This will give you the server name that holds the mx record

Yep, NSLOOKUP works perfect for getting the MX records... the only thing that it won't tell you, is if there are any non-standard port requirements - but I would expect the provider's support (web or phone) can provide that information if necessary...

-Randy

 

[paristotle]

Yup. I also found a nice little trick a while back. I install Thunderbird, configure the user id, password, and I set it to leave mail on the server. After creating the account T-bird queries the server for ports and finds the proper ones to use. It got me out of a jam a few times.

Yep, NSLOOKUP works perfect for getting the MX records... the only thing that it won't tell you, is if there are any non-standard port requirements - but I would expect the provider's support (web or phone) can provide that information if necessary...

-Randy

 

[Cambridge PC Support]

Yup. I also found a nice little trick a while back. I install Thunderbird, configure the user id, password, and I set it to leave mail on the server. After creating the account T-bird queries the server for ports and finds the proper ones to use. It got me out of a jam a few times.

the few times I've installed it, I've never had much luck with TB automatically detecting the servers/ports. On one occasion Virgin Media got set up as Googlemail!

 

[paristotle]

lol don't setup the virgin with Google. It can only lead to trouble

the few times I've installed it, I've never had much luck with TB automatically detecting the servers/ports. On one occasion Virgin Media got set up as Googlemail!