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