There are two ways to access Exchange emails through DavMail Gateway: the good old and efficient POP protocol, limited to Inbox access and the IMAP protocol that enables full message folder tree access. DavMail IMAP listener has a higher memory footprint.
This page describes IMAP setup, if you don't need multiple folders access, proceed to POP Thunderbird mail setup instead.
DavMail can be used with any IMAP/SMTP client by adjusting the following description designed for Thunderbird. DavMail IMAP support is tested with Thunderbird, Outlook and Apple Mail.
Choose Add Mail Account... under Account settings and enter name, email address
and password:
Click Continue and Manual config without waiting for automatic config:
Incoming server type is IMAP, server hostname is localhost, default port is 1143, no SSL and normal
password authentication. Outgoing server is localhost, default port is 1025, no SSL and normal
password authentication. Set your username (windows account name or email address) and click
Re-test to validate account settings, then Create Account:
Without SSL you will get the following warning, check box and confirm account creation:
Note: as communication between Thunderbird and DavMail is local, cleartext mode is not an issue, except on shared machines (e.g. Terminal server).
Proceed to Thunderbird calendar setup