From Dustin Hawkins: I run two instances of DavMail on my linux desktop to connect to work and university exchange servers. In order to accomplish this, I used the Java Service Wrapper. Thought I would share my configs in case any one else wanted to run multi-instance under the java service wrapper. http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org/doc/english/download.jsp I created the following directory structure /opt/davmail bin/ wrapper <-- this is provided by java service wrapper. platform specific native executable. davmail davmail_2 lib/ conf/ wrapper.conf wrapper.conf_2 davmail.properties davmail.properties_2 logs/ The bin/davmail* scripts are the linux start/stop scripts for each instance the conf/ directory has two files for each instance, a wrapper.conf, and a davmail.properties. by linking the bin/davmail* scripts into /etc/init.d and /etc/rc.d, I start davmail as a linux service, and its easily start/stop/restart-able via the standard linux commands. If you download the Java Service Wrapper, you can find the appropriate executables and start scripts for your platform under /bin You can find the correct static object or DLL files under the /lib I have included a ZIP of my wrapper.conf and davmail startup scripts