Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] davmail

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 4:37 AM, Jose Marques  wrote:
>> On 29 Sep 2017, at 02:34, Nico Kadel-Garcia  wrote:
>>
>> Storing individual messages in individual files, sacrosanct and unedited, is 
>> part of the basic IMAP specification.
>
> UW IMAP written by the author of the IMAP RFC stored multiple messages in the 
> same file (one file per mailbox). It also offered the option of an indexed 
> (binary) mailbox format for better concurrent access (less whole file 
> locking). The way messages are stored on the server is an implementation 
> detail. Having said that Exchange and Office 365 are awful in this regard.

I'm going to dig back into yesteryear for this stuff. Let me know
if it's uninteresting, or inappropriate here, and I'll try to scale
back such generalized reminescences.

That's not how I remember the client: the reference client for
wu-imapd was "pine", contained in the "wu-imapd" source code tarball
from Washington University. That had one directory owned by the user
for the entire local mailbox. That mailbox directory was defined as
$HOME/ in the original implementation of the server. Folders were
built as directories under the mailbox, and individual messages were
individual messages were individual files. The metadata about the
messages, such as whether they had been read, was encoded in the
filename, so that changes of message status were file renames and
extremely reliable atomic operations. This was a major performance
benefit to IMAP: having to open up bulky folders and manipulate data
about individual messages in them has always been a source of
corruption of many database backed mail systems. The pristine message
stores were invaluable for spam filter training when I did some work
bringing some spam software over to 64-bit.

The real performance problem was when people put too many messages in
one level of one folder. The kernel operation to list many thousands
of files in the same folder became increasingly tedious, but it was
really easy to split one folder into multiple folders to make it
manageable again. I remember having some long chats with people who
never, never deleted or organized their email and splitting up their
email by year into multiple folders for them, on the server side, just
by grepping the "Date:" lines.

The original publicly available wu-imapd software package, and the
pine code contained within it, did not include SSL or support for
IMAPS in its published releases. I got yelled at by Marc Crispin for
stealing the wu-imapd implementation code for IMAPS and publishing it,
which I *did not do*. I published pointers to places outside the US
where you could get SSL patches. That mattered because sharing your
IMAP passwords and content in clear text to a remote server was a
quite dangerous practice, and the wu-imapd published version had no
encryption. The hooks were there, the code was not. I was never sure
if it was Marc, or Washington University, who elected to avoid issues
with US export encryption regulations by excising the code, but it
created maintenance issues if you bolted on the third party SSL tools.
OpenSSL was safely available for download outside the USA, but it was
not being published by commercial operating system distributors at the
time, and I was working with SunOS.

I also kept publishing patches so that imapd and Pine, the client
included in the code base, could both be configured to use the same
$HOME/mail subfolder to store a particular user's messages. Marc was
absolutely convinced that a machine used for an IMAP service should
use $HOME/ as the base of the IMAP directory, because *of course* you
would never use a mail server as anything else or ever use an IMAP
capable email client on it. And there would never be anything in your
$HOME/ except your email, becuase of course you would never have
working user directories on such a host. Unfortunately, some of us
couldn't afford another server for just email. And as it was written,
if you told imapd to use $HOME/mail, Pine would save copies of that in
$HOME/mail/mail. The results were ugly, because using Pine on the
IMAP server itself would have IMAPD report that as a folder called
"mail/mail", which Pine would try to download locally as
$HOME/mail/mail/mail/, and hilarity would ensue.

My first college computer course was in Scheme, which had a navel
gazing fascination with recursion and self-recursion. This sort of
system destroying behavior is why I *loathe* careless recursion.

I published those patches for imapd and pine to gracefully share
$HOME/mail/ for about 10 years, and I'm very tempted to swear that
Marc kept deliberately rewriting the relevant 20 lines or so of code
in wu-imapd to break my patches with *every minor release*. As best I
could tell, the upstream patches to that code had no other effect. The
code stanzas were quite small and legible, the code was pretty good
that way. When the wu-imapd codebase switched to C++, I threw 

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] davmail

[Jose Marques]

> On 29 Sep 2017, at 02:34, Nico Kadel-Garcia  wrote:
> 
> Storing individual messages in individual files, sacrosanct and unedited, is 
> part of the basic IMAP specification.

UW IMAP written by the author of the IMAP RFC stored multiple messages in the 
same file (one file per mailbox). It also offered the option of an indexed 
(binary) mailbox format for better concurrent access (less whole file locking). 
The way messages are stored on the server is an implementation detail. Having 
said that Exchange and Office 365 are awful in this regard.

The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland, No. SC013532.

Re: davmail

[Chris Schanzle]

On 09/28/2017 02:10 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:

Supposedly, I am using office365 that you indicate is IETF IMAP compliant.

Arguable, laughable, but yes, it usually works well enough.



The diagnostic on failure states "authenticated but not connected".


They are having world-wide issues with IMAP over the last week or so.  Your 
mailbox may be affected while your co-worker is not.

To verify if you are affected:

openssl s_client -connect outlook.office365.com:993 -crlf
...

* OK The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service is ready. 
[TQBXAEg...AbwBrAC4AYwBvAG0A]

. login username@yourdomain  [password]
. OK LOGIN completed.
. LIST "" *
. BAD User is authenticated but not connected.
. LIST INBOX *
. BAD User is authenticated but not connected.
* BYE Connection closed. 14
read:errno=0

Re: davmail

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote:
> On 09/28/2017 04:25 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
>>
>> On 09/27/2017 09:56 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:

>> 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

Storing individual messages in individual files, sacrosanct and
unedited, is part of the basic IMAP specification. I agree that an
additional database is usually cunnecessary. It can break down when
too many thousands of files are all in the same folder, but that's
easily handled by splitting off filders by date sent of the files
contained therein.

There are too many robust clients for IMAP to even number. I was fond
of the old "Pine" software, and used to organize hooks to enable SSL
for IMAPS for the public versions. "outlook.office365.com" does
indicate that it's the Office365 services, which are allegedly IMAP
compliant. I'd urge you to KISS: don't try ti import software such as
"davmail" what has apparently only ever been supported under Ubuntu,
do *not* use Java for an enitrely unnecessary "mail gateway". Work
with the simplest, most robust IMAP client you can find:

I admit that I switched my mail handling to Gmail some time back, for
stability and well supported access of bulky email. Thunderbird used
to be pretty good, and I used it recently to iron out some confusion
with an upstream Office365 service. It gave me a much more accessible
look at the older mail to have local copies of everything in
analyzable folders.

Re: davmail

[Yasha Karant]

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

Re: davmail

[Bruce Ferrell]

On 9/28/17 6:09 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote:

On 9/28/17 2:36 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:

On 28/09/17 06:50, 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.Â
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.

Doesn't Evolution ship with Exchange support these days?

<https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/exchange-placeholder.html.en> 



I see my RHEL7.4 box have both evolution-ews and evolution-mapi 
packages.



Possibly, but ever since evolution ate my mailbox (admittedly years 
ago) I've stayed as far from that as possible... I also simply prefer 
the environment of Thunderbird over highly integrated mail clients


One other thing that really irked me about Evolution (and kmail and the 
other highly integrated mail clients)... They all seem to want to run a 
database server (usually mysql at least it's not postgres).  I hated it 
in ccMail (Yes, I've been dealing with mail clients THAT long. it later 
was integrated into Lotus Notes) and I hate it now.


I understand WHY they want/need to do that... Multiple applications 
sharing the same data, BUT to me that means they should REALLY rethink 
what they're doing.

Re: davmail

[Bruce Ferrell]

On 9/28/17 2:36 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:

On 28/09/17 06:50, 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.Â
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.

Doesn't Evolution ship with Exchange support these days?

<https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/exchange-placeholder.html.en>

I see my RHEL7.4 box have both evolution-ews and evolution-mapi packages.


Possibly, but ever since evolution ate my mailbox (admittedly years ago) 
I've stayed as far from that as possible... I also simply prefer the 
environment of Thunderbird over highly integrated mail clients

Re: davmail

[Bruce Ferrell]

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.

Re: davmail

[David Sommerseth]

On 28/09/17 06:50, 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.

Doesn't Evolution ship with Exchange support these days?

<https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/exchange-placeholder.html.en>

I see my RHEL7.4 box have both evolution-ews and evolution-mapi packages.


-- 
kind regards,

David Sommerseth

Re: davmail

[Yasha Karant]

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?

Re: davmail

[Bruce Ferrell]

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.

davmail

[Yasha Karant]

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

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