Recent Davmail Posts from Tech Monger

Access Exchange Emails without Outlook

2018-01-06T15:46:37.327725Z

In previous posts we have installed davmail on both Linux and Windows; In this article we will configure DavMail with MS Exchange server and access emails on Thunderbird. This setup will eliminate need of MS Outlook; If you are not sure about this setup then read why we need DavMail. If you have already installed it then you would see following configuration interface from DavMail.

Access Exchange Emails on Windows with Davmail

2017-12-23T20:21:43.662770Z

Before we begin with setup I assume that you have downloaded latest version of davmail for windows and understand working of davmail to connect to the exchange server with EWS.

Davmail Setup on Linux

2018-01-06T15:46:12.647277Z

Previously we discussed how davmail can be used to access exchange emails without webmail or outlook. In this post we will learn how we can install it on Linux. I assume that you have downloaded davmail for your platform in last post. Now we will install DavMail Version 4.8 on Linux (Ubutnu, Debian and non debian ditros). However, you are free to install latest available version.

Access exchange mails without outlook

2017-12-23T20:20:11.722312Z

Traditionally email servers have used protocols like SMTP, IMAP and POP for email sending and delivery. However Microsoft has integrated own protocol in exchange mail server which requires proprietary client like outlook or webmail to access emails and other services like calendar and contacts. In majority of corporate exchange setup important email ports remain inaccessible from outside VPN connection so you cannot connect directly to the exhange server with free mail client like Thunderbird unless you have some middleware between mail client and exchange server that is able to communicate using exchange web services. Fortunately there is Davmail.