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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