On 09/28/2017 04:25 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
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.
From my Tbird configuration for the email server in question:
outlook.office365.com
Supposedly, I am using office365 that you indicate is IETF IMAP
compliant. The diagnostic on failure states "authenticated but not
connected". As for later comments in this thread, I too do not like
fully integrated clients that also run additional servers (e.g., a RDBMS
system) to operate. It is true that Mozilla has a directory in which it
keeps the "data" for email, etc., but this is one directory (and
sub-tree thereof) that needs to be copied and restored.
Yasha Karant
