Connecting to a Microsoft Exchange Server with Thunderbird
This Document describes how to connect to a Microsoft Exchange server using Thunderbird.
POP3
IMAP
Connection Settings
Server Name: servername.mydomain.edu
Port: 143
User Name will be one of the following:
USERNAME password DOMAIN/USERNAME password DOMAIN/USERNAME/MAILBOX password USERNAME@mydomain.com/MAILBOX password USERNAME@mydomain.com password
User Name - see the "Test your IMAP login with Telnet" section for more information
Security Settings
Use secure connection: Never
Use secure authentication: Never
Discover your default mailbox name
Microsoft's Active Directory Application Mode. ADAM is a package of tools that includes CSVDE, which allows one to perform queries on ActiveDirectory. One may use csvde to discover default mailbox names by browsing the LDAP properties of Active Directory The mailbox property exists on the user as ‘mailNickname’
Type this into google, the download page should be the second hit.
adam microsoft
Install. Open the command prompt. Start>RUN and type 'cmd' Navigate to the installation directory, default is c:\windows\ADAM
Example Queries: Query a user entry (replace 'lastname' with the user's lastname)
CSVDE -f export.csv -r "(&(objectClass=user)(sn=lastname))"
Open the resulting file export.csv in MS Excel or OO Calc and look for the mailNickName property.
One may also use Windows's Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in. The mailbox is referred to as the “Alias”, and can be seen by navigating to the user, right click > Properties > Exchange General
Test your IMAP login with Telnet
telnet servername.mydomain.com 143
One of the following login commands: (If the mailbox is not specified the default is used)
a001 login USERNAME password a001 login DOMAIN/USERNAME password a001 login DOMAIN/USERNAME/MAILBOX password
User Principal Name(UPN) Login: (Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in > navigate to user and right click > Properties > Account, UPN is listed under User logonname.)
a001 login USERNAME@mydomain.com/MAILBOX password a001 login USERNAME@mydomain.com password
The string following "a001 login" is what one uses for the username within firefox
Setting Up the Global Address Book
You need to set up the address book with the following settings:
Name: |
<name it as you like, to separate it from other address books, you might have> |
Hostname: |
exchange.domain.com (This is the hostname of the exchange server) |
Base DN: |
dc=domain,dc=local (the full name of the local domain, e.g. domain.local, translated to this syntax) |
Port number: |
3268 (i believe this is exchange's default port) |
Bind DN: |
DOMAIN\username |
Search filter (on the advanced tab): |
(objectclass=person) |
References