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.