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