![]() Server, to the cloud-based, outsourced Office365 service. In June2018 our emails were migrated from the USyd internal Exchange Re-Introducing davmail for Uni outsourced Office365 (but this cannot be done with a davmail "server"). Setting, so it would handle the authentication prompts, and you could You (probably?) could run davmail on your own machine, with the You should use the Microsoft "native" IMAP/SMTP services, instead. The "davmail server" does not work with OAuth2, and has been turned The Uni has introduced a new authentication mechanism Old (mostly superceded and useless) blurb below. See elsewhere about how to use (survive?) Okta MFA. Other clients mentioned as maybe able to do O365 OAuth2:.Settings, then fix up both IMAP and SMTP settings.Įmail clients not tested (please let me know if you need one of these, Something else (but all other values correct), click Advanced Thunderbird may not show OAuth2 for authentication. Server, port 587, security STARTTLS, method OAuth2 Outgoing Server for SMTP, select, edit:.Server, port 993, security SSL/TLS, method OAuth2 The ICT HelpDesk are unwilling to help with any Outlook2013 issues.ĪccountSettings (right-click email account, Settings) Or maybe you should update to Outlook 2016. ![]() Outlook 2013 - needs some some registry settings, see:.To log in, use your emailĪddress with the unikey password and Okta MFA authentication.Įmail clients tested to work with these settings: This page is not about davmail at all, as that does not work with OAuth2.Īll USyd email is outsourced to Office365. Say goodbye to Outlook and use the force with Thunderbird! There might be some small bugs here and there, but i’ve been using it for a while now, and never needed outlook for anything.Settings for USyd email Settings for email at USyd That’s it! You can use Thunderbird with your Microsoft Exchange account from now. When that’s done, go to Thunderbird’s settings, and in the ‘write’ or ‘compose’ tab, tell Thunderbird to use this directory for address autocompletion. Set base context to ou=people, and as user you’ll insert your full e-mail address again. In Thunderbird, open your address book (‘Contacts’) and click File > New > LDAP DirectoryĪgain, insert the port number you chose in the DavMail settings, and localhost as hostname. Use your full e-mail address as username and as password you should use your e-mail’s password. After that you’ll be prompted for your username and password. Select CalDav as format, and insert this in the location field (edit the port number, 2080 in my case, to match your DavMail settings, and the e-mail address to match a name and a color for the calendar in the next step. Install the Lightning add-on in Thunderbird. But that’s not all there is to Exchange, right? If that went right, you can now send and receive e-mails through Thunderbird. As username use your full e-mail address, and as password you should use your e-mail’s password. For the port numbers, insert the portnumbers you chose in the DavMail settings (IMAP will most likely be 2143 and SMTP 2025). Use localhost as your host, since the DavMail program is your host and listens on localhost. Then, you’ll have to enter hostnames and ports for IMAP and SMTP servers. You’ll have to insert your connection data manually.įirst, choose the IMAP protocol. Thunderbird will most likely try to find your host in it’s database and fail. Fill in your name, e-mail address, and password. If DavMail is installed and set up correctly, you can now install Thunderbird, and add your Exchange account to it. Therefore it’s best to use ports with numbers above 1000. Once the program is installed, open the settings panel and fill in the url of your Exchange server in the “URL OWA” field.Īlso make sure the ports listed under that field are not in use by other programs, and do not require root permissions. The installation of DavMail on every operating system is pretty straightforward, but if you can’t get it installed, there are instructions on the DavMail project site (installation on ubuntu needs a little terminal command to show the system tray icon). It will connect to the exchange server for us, and translate everything to standard e-mail and calendar protocols, like IMAP, LDAP, etc… You can then connect Thunderbird to Davmail, instead of connecting it directly to the Exchange server. DavMail is a gateway for the exchange protocol. Setup DavMailįirst, we’re going to set up DavMail. You can get these programs from their websites, or install them using your favorite package manager. We’ll use only free (as in speech) software for this, and this will work on every major operating system (Mac OSX, GNU/Linux, Windows). ![]() Sadly, it’s not very easy to get it to work. Yes, you can use Mozilla’s great e-mail client ‘Thunderbird’ with your Microsoft Exchange account! I’m doing it at work since september now, and it’s working like a charm.
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