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If you are launching the Thunderbird for the first time, you will be greeted with a wizard to create a new mail account. ![]() ![]() You can either launch Thunderbird from there or just use the Terminal command “thunderbird”. SETUP THUNDERBIRD WITH DAVMAIL INSTALLApply the changes.įor those who are more comfortable with text commands, fire up a Terminal from Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal and install Thunderbird using the apt-get utility.Ī shortcut will be created for you in Applications -> Internet -> Thunderbird. Search for “thunderbird”, select the entry “thunderbird”, right click and mark it for installation. Open the Synaptic Package Manager from System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager. When I am writing this, the latest versions for Thunderbird, Lightning and DavMail are 3.1, 1.0b2 and 3.6.6-1032 respectively. We will be using the Synaptic Package Manager and the aptitude utility that comes with Ubuntu for all the installations. Thunderbird doesn’t come pre-installed with Ubuntu 10.04, so we will need to install Thunderbird first. Let’s save the debate on why did I chose this particular combo only for some other day. SETUP THUNDERBIRD WITH DAVMAIL HOW TOI therefore had to install another Thunderbird extension, called SOGo connector.As the title suggests, I’m going to take you through exact steps on how to setup Thunderbird + Lightning + DavMail on Ubuntu 10.04 for your corporate email and calendaring (both hosted on Microsoft Exchange server) needs. So the Davmail contact sync, based on LDAP, was syncing with an empty list. Instead of using the “global address list”, they created a specific list of contacts (name “Company contacts”, with a space). I had some troubles regarding the access to contacts since the structure used by the Exchange server in my company was not “usual”. Since this concerns only a few calendars that are not important to me, I did not pursue it through. I did not follow through on this aspect but even today there are some calendars that I can actually open, but nothing shows up. ![]() To access other users’ calendars, I used the following my installation notes, I noted “initial request for access to a shared calendar has to be done by Outlook, otherwise no access”. The tutorial from Davmail is very well done: Since then my company upgraded to Office 365. My company had a reverse proxy to access the exchange server (). I document here my specific case, in case it may help anyone. Exchange 2010 EWS mode with unsupported authentication form e.g.There are different versions of the path, depending on Exchange versions: DavMail must be able to find the authentication form at the provided URL. The path depends on Exchange version and configuration, with or without a reverse proxy. You will need to identify the correct Outlook Web Access URL to access the exchange server, i.e. Once downloaded and installed, you will need to configure it. There are actually quite a lot of resources on Davmail website, so I wont duplicate the information. Prerequesite: your exchange account needs to have “OWA” (Outlook Web Access) activated There are still some issues, but works “mostly”. Any email client (Evolution, Thunderbird) with Davmail gateway: the solution that I’m currently working with.Thunderbird client (windows, linux) with ExQuilla addon: this is paid solution, I have not tested it.Requires linux obviously (not suitable in my work environment). Evolution client (linux) with evolution-ews plugin: I have this configuration working on a linux machine, however it’s not as powerful as Davmail regarding the access to shared calendars (in public folders, see below).This only works for emails, not for accessing shared calendars Using any email client in POP3 or IMAP. ![]() SETUP THUNDERBIRD WITH DAVMAIL FREEYou cannot stand outlook? Want to use a free (as in Freedom) email client, while your environment is 100% Microsoft exchange? Here are some options… ![]()
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