Hi All,

I have been trying for the past couple of days to connect to an
Exchange 2007 server without success through Pine/Alpine (for full
disclosure, I am actually trying to connect to Exchange via a PHP
program, but PHP IMAP's library uses the exact same library that
Alpine uses -- and I get the exact same errors using either -- so we
can use Alpine for the purposes of this discussion).

I have done a lot of research and tried different proposed solutions
without any success. I really need this to work, so any help would be
immensely appreciated.

The problem can be stated as follows:

I have been given an exchange account with on:
1) Server: exchange.foo.com
2) DOMAIN/USERNAME/ALIAS: X/Y/ga.user
3) Actual email account is user@foo.com
4) Password is foobar

For the record, if I input into Thunderbird:
Username = X/Y/ga.user
Password = foobar
I can connect without problems (same thing in KMail for the record)

In Alpine, I am trying the following connection string, which
according to my research (http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/it/email/
exchange/imap.htm or http://www.cs.washington.edu/lab/services/email/pine-exchange.html)
should work:
inbox-path={exchange.foo.com/ssl/novalidate-cert/user=X\Y\ga.user}
INBOX
However, I get an authentication failure. I've tried a hundrend
combinations (taking out novalidate-cert, trying non-SSL with TLS
which the server also supports, but nothing)

Any ideas??

Thanks in advance,

Anthony