On 09/27/2017 06:33 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
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> 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,
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>       Manual setup
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> Prerequisite: OpenJDK 6 or 7 or Sun JRE 6. Tray icon is now implemented with SWT and compatible with Java 5.
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> Note: some users reported issues with OpenJDK 6, please upgrade to OpenJDK 7 in this case.
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> You should first download and install Java, with the graphical package manager or through command line.
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> Under Ubuntu, launch System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager, quick search default-jre, mark for installation and click Apply
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> Or use the following command:
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> sudo apt-get install default-jre
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> 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.
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> 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 :
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> end excerpt that is followed by examples of the various GUI boxes that one must complete.
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> Thanks for any assistance.
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> Yasha Karant
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 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.