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Thunderbird/Exchange Setup

I am trying to setup Thunderbird to work with my Exchange 2010 server. The server name is non-typical being mail2.domain.com so apparently TB can't autodiscover the settings. Oddly enough the built-in mail client on my Mac discovers and sets up just fine, but no matter what I do I can't get TB to work. I've tried every combination of settings and none work. Is there something I can do to help TB discover my exchange settings or is there some way that I can get the settings out of my Mac mail client and into TB?

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yarwell

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tsprks

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I've tried this endlessly and can't get it to work. It is so bizarre and I just need it to work.

larsrohr

Mac Mail may be looking for http://autodiscover.domain.com, like Outlook on Windows would.

Thunderbird searches for autoconfiguration info differently, looking for http://autoconfig.domain.com first, and then for http://domain.com/.well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.xml second. See also:
* Autoconfiguration in Thunderbird
* Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration:ConfigFileFormat

But you can always manually configure Thunderbird with your client settings, as yarwell says.

larsrohr

Usually Thunderbird will be set up to use Exchange as an IMAP client, by the way.

Jamie McKillop

Hello,

Have you configured your Exchange server to use either IMAP or POP3? The are disabled by default.

JJ

Kash

to setup thunderbird, enter server address manually in a format below:

server (incoming/outgoing) https://serveraddress/owa (if its using https)

for username password, try normal if that don't work use domainname/username and see if that helps.