This will fail and a message saying 'Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account' will display. Thunderbird will attempt to automatically configure your account settings.Enter your name as you want it to appear in the From field in outgoing mail and your email address.When asked if you would like a new email address, click Skip this and use my existing email.Launch Thunderbird and choose to create a new Email account.

Set up a new Thunderbird accountĪfter installing Thunderbird you need to configure it for use with your mailbox. Follow the instructions on the site for installing Thunderbird. These instructions require Thunderbird version 78 or later. You can obtain a free download of Thunderbird from the Mozilla website. To request access to IMAP, please submit a Help request. With IMAP you can only access your email, not your calendars, contacts, or tasks. Again, DavMail can be used here as an alternative to EWS.Thunderbird lacks Exchange support so it needs to be configured for IMAP. It is partially unstable beta software.įinally, calendar and address book can be “outsourced” from Thunderbird by independently setting up iCal and Address Book in OSX. This way the Exchange address book can be integrated via the DavMail Gateway's address: Exchange Calendar PluginĬan be added as an alternative. For this purpose create a new LDAP Directory in Thunderbird's address book with the settings host=, LDAP base context ou=people and Port 1389.Īlternatively, Thunderbird understands CardDAV with the Sogo Connector Plugin.

The calendar is integrated as a network calendar type CalDAV with the address (Where userid is the GWDG username.)įor addresses the global Exchange Address Book can be integrated with DavMail. The proven way to access the Exchange calendar and address book is the DavMail Gateway. The basis for calendar under Thunderbird is the Lightning Plugin. As described above Thunderbird does not support Microsoft's MAPI or EWS protocols.īut there are also other possibilities with Thunderbird to access Exchange calendar and address book functionality.

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