DavMail POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav Exchange Gateway - Frequently asked questions Mickael Guessant

Frequently asked questions on DavMail forums, mailing list or direct email.

Authentication fails with invalid user or password message

Authentication fails with the following message: Authentication failed: invalid user or password, retry with domain\user

Exchange before 2007 expects domain qualified user name, you may not have to provide the domain name on the logon form if javascript is used to add it, but DavMail can not execute javascript. Thus you need to prefix your user name with the Active Directory domain followed by \

Authentication fails with error in parsing the status line

Authentication fails with the following message: error in parsing the status line from the response: unable to find line starting with "HTTP"

Your Exchange server expects HTTPS (secured) connections, use https instead of http in OWA url.

How do I detect errors in Thunderbird/Lightning calendar ?

Unfortunately, Lightning does not provide much feedback of what is going on. To detect errors at this level, you may activate calendar log settings under Tools/Options/Advanced:

calendar.debug.log=true calendar.debug.log.verbose=true

Invalid notifications

Lightning 0.9 mail notifications are broken, activate Caldav notifications to outbox instead:

Check the following parameter in Thunderbird, it should be set to true

calendar.caldav.sched.enabled=true