Hello all,
In short - I want linked mailbox users to be able to read a shared mailbox e-mails on mobile phones. OWA is not a good enough idea, since very few of the client users find it usable on small screens. I was expecting them to be able to connect to shared mailboxes
via POP3, but I have missed something or it is simply not possible for some reason.
I have an Exchange 2013 CU2 deployment with users as linked mailboxes, and shared mailbox in local Exchange domain.
* User accounts are in user account domain "usersdomain.com"
* Exchange 2013 CU2 is installed in domain "exchangedomain.com"
* There is a working trust between these two domains
* UserA from "usersdomain.com" have linked mailbox in Exchange on domain "exchangedomain.com", POP3 enabled, everything works very well.
* There is a Shared Mailbox "SharedMailbox1@exchangedomain.com", and both, UserA@usersdomain.com and UserA@exchangedomain.com (disabled account for linked mailbox) has Full Access and Send as permissions to this shared mailbox. Everything works very
well via Outlook (MAPI) or OWA.
* There is also UserB@exchangedomain.com, who has Full Access and Send as permissions to this shared mailbox "SharedMailbox1@exchangedomain.com" and POP3 enabled. Everything works here too.
* "SharedMailbox1@exchangedomain.com" has POP3, and all other protocols enabled.
In the setup above I can successfully retrieve e-mails from shared mailbox using Outlook with POP3 login name UserB@exchangedomain.com\SharedMailbox1@exchangedomain.com, but when I use UserA@usersdomain.com\SharedMailbox1@exchangedomain.com I get "bad
username or password".
I can open SharedMailbox1 via UserA@usersdomain.com OWA site, and I can get UserA@usersdomain.com e-mails via POP3.
Now, what I want to do, is for the user UserA@usersdomain.com to connect and use SharedMailbox1@exchangedomain.com via POP3 on mobile device. IMAP is a second choice, or any other means to read the emails from the shared mailbox on mobile devices, with this users credentials and without duplicating any e-mail via some rules, and without using OWA .. Is this possible?
Any suggestions?
Sincerely,
Vince