On 09/27/2017 09:56 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
On 09/27/2017 09:50 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
On 09/27/2017 06:33 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
I have been instructed to use davmail by the university IT who insist that the university use a proprietary Microsoft email service. Although the service nominally provides
IETF SMTP and IMAP compliant access, this access has been unreliable. I have found the following from http://davmail.sourceforge.net/linuxsetup.html and I have not found a SL
7 davmail RPM. Does anyone use davmail with SL 7 and Mozilla Thunderbird IMAP and SMTP (my choice for an email client)? If so,
Manual setup
Prerequisite: OpenJDK 6 or 7 or Sun JRE 6. Tray icon is now implemented with
SWT and compatible with Java 5.
Note: some users reported issues with OpenJDK 6, please upgrade to OpenJDK 7 in
this case.
You should first download and install Java, with the graphical package manager
or through command line.
Under Ubuntu, launch System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager, quick
search default-jre, mark for installation and click Apply
Or use the following command:
sudo apt-get install default-jre
Download the linux x86 DavMail package from Sourceforge and uncompress it with your favorite tool. The standard package will run natively on x86, to use DavMail on any other
hardware platform, replace the SWT with the right one from http://www.eclipse.org/swt/ or use the platform independent package.
On Ubuntu and other Gnome or Kde distributions, just use the desktop launcher.
On other distributions, try davmail.sh. You should now see the DavMail gateway
icon in the tray :
end excerpt that is followed by examples of the various GUI boxes that one must
complete.
Thanks for any assistance.
Yasha Karant
From what you say, you may be using exchange and while davmail may do the job, I used exquilla. It cost me $10.00/year for the license, but I found it VERY effective in dealing
with MS Exchange.
From looking over davmail, it set's up a pop3/imap gateway to mapi mail
services.
Exquilla:
Reviews
*Add-on no longer working* Rated 1 out of 5 stars
by deep-blue <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/user/deep-blue/> on August 2, 2017 · permalink
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/exquilla-exchange-web-services/reviews/900573/>
We use the program for commercial purposes.
There are many problems:
* Bad release management (add-on no longer works)
* Poor support
If there are no significant improvements, we will not extend a license.
End excerpt.
Do you disagree with the above review of exquilla?
Yes I have to disagree with that review. I I started using the plugin four years ago and stopped about two weeks ago, when the company I work for changed from exchange server to
office365 (pop3/imap). Any time I had a difficulty I opened a support case and received very prompt responses and fixes or explanations.
MAPI/exchange server is a royal pain and the exquilla add-on made it far less
so for me. Your mileage may vary.
