DavMail is available on different platforms, I chose the Windows version, again the one that doesn’t require installation: Let’s see how to use it as mail client I chose Thunderbird, in its portable version (which doesn’t require installation) but as I said you can use the mail client you prefer.įirst download the latest version of DavMail. You only need to install on your PC an opensource software, DavMail GatewayĭavMail indeed acts as a “translator”: on a side it communicates with the Exchange server using the language ( protocol) normally spoken by Outlook (WebDav, EWS – Exchange Web Service s), while on the other side it offers the standard mail protocols: POP/IMAP (for incoming emails) and SMTP (for outgoing emails): Thanks to a suggestion by a colleague, I’ve just discovered a way to access your Exchange mailbox (including calendar and contacts) using any mail clients. Important note! If you leave the Email set to None, no invitations will be sent to other participants when you arrange meetings.If you have a mailbox hosted on a Microsoft Exchange server, you’re probably using Outlook (or its web variant) as mail client. Now, restart Thunderbird, and open the Calendar.Īdd a new calendar and use a URL like this: : Your Username must be in the following form: DOMAIN\USER Set up calendarĭownload lightning.xpi og gdata-provider.xpi, og install the extensions from file in Thunderbird (Tools -> Addons -> Install): In Thunderbird, go to Edit -> Account Settings, and edit the Server settings, so they look like this:Īlso, edit the SMTP server settings, so they look like this: The email client will complaint that you are using an insecure connection to the server, but that’s allright, as it runs on localhost. Your Username must be in the following form: DOMAIN\USER Open Thunderbird and configure your email servers like this: $ sudo apt-get install thunderbird Set up new email account Thunderbird is not part of the default installation in Ubuntu 11.04, so you need to install it manually: Here are the instructions for Thunderbird. You can check out the logs by right clicking on the icon and selecting «Show logs».ĭavMail is made to work for any email client. Right click on the icon, choose settings and set the URL to your OWA (Exchange) server (e.g. You should now see an icon in your system tray that looks like this: $ sudo dpkg -i davmail_3.9.5-1805-1_all.debĭavMail should now be installed. $ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin libswt-gtk-3.6-java If you have a different distro, or run a 32-bit version, you can still use this HOWTO, just adapt the parts that are 64-bit specific. I run a pretty standard Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit OS ( download here). I can verify connecting successfully to the following services: Email, Calendar and Directory. I run this on my localhost, but this can naturally be set up on any host. The solution lies in installing an Exchange gateway called DavMail. Thanks to a link posted by tanstaalf to a French project, DavMail, I was finally able to connect to my company’s Microsoft Exchange 2010 server from my beloved Mozilla Thunderbird client. Looking for the instructions for Ubuntu 11.10? Click here.
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