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
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