Dave Lee wrote:This might be a dumb question, but I don't really know what Active Directory is or what connecting to it should do. Does connecting to AD just add in people from the exchange address book to your recipients list?
I clicked Setup Mail and entered my email address and Outgoing Mail server - using the Exchange server address used in my Outlook settings. When I clicked Lookup in Active directory it just said "Failed to locate Exchange server".
That didn't stop me sending an email though, I could manually add a recipient and send them the topic, which opened up a draft message in Outlook.
I don't understand either. The only thing I know for sure is that if I manually enter an email address and click Send, it STILL tries to configure Active Directory, it can't be cancelled, and then bye bye Flare. If it would just let me cancel I would tell it exactly where to look. It's not only really frustrating that such a major piece of functionality is unavailable to non-AD houses, it's also incredibly unfriendly to take down Flare in the process.
I'd love mine to say "Failed to locate Exchange Server" after I click "Setup Mail" OR "Send" (after manually entering an email address) because that might just give me access to the fields underneath that box and then, I might be in with a fighting chance (although probably not from Richard's earlier post). As it is - both buttons go down the AD path leaving me on a little island cursing loudly.
Dave - are you saying that when you click "Setup Mail" you can actually access those fields, i.e. it doesn't automatically go "Looking up email address in Active Directory"? If so - it's even more bizzare than I previously thought, as it's not doing doing that on my system, nor is it doing that on the OP's system (if I've understood correctly).
Flare using the Task Manager to get rid of it.
