asked on 9/4/2013

How to configure Thunderbird with an Exchange account - urgent =(

Hello team, does someone happen to know how to configure Thunderbird with a corporate Exchange account? The mail servers were migrated and now its Exchange on the backend, but I don't know what values from Outlook I need to input into Thunderbird to make this work. Could someone please guide me on this one? I am currently receiving emails through Outlook which is increasingly a mess since important emails are getting downloaded there, splitting my inboxes between my old Thunderbird and Outlook now.

Thanks in advance,

Thunderbird Outlook Email Clients

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José Méndez

9/9/2013

Member_2_6492660_1

9/4/2013

I found this

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2007/03/30/howto-thunderbird-and-ms-exchange-server/

Hope this helps

Jason Watkins

9/4/2013

You need to find out the addresses of the Exchange server's POP3/IMAP and SMTP virtual servers. Usually it is something like "imap.domain.com", "smtp.domain.com"

José Méndez

9/4/2013

ASKER

Thanks I already went through that link but step 11 is not clear, I don't have a server hostname when I look it up in Outlook.

Jason Watkins

9/4/2013

What is the value for the Exchange server setting in Outlook? Is there an e-mail admin you can ask?

Member_2_6492660_1

9/4/2013

you can also find it by doing this

Nslookup -ty=mx domain.com

José Méndez

9/4/2013

ASKER

If I go under Tools > Account Settings > double click on my email account then I can see the Exchange server, but I don't know the port number to put it in TB. I already tried IMAP port 993 but nothing. I installed Exquilla plugin and entered the OWA URL which succeded, however I can't get emails... If I try to log into the OWA website, I cannot connect. I think I must pursue this path and maybe that plugin will do the trick?

Member_2_6492660_1

9/4/2013

You need to check with the exchange admin to see if they are running IMAP or Pop3.

They do not run by default and if you do not have a need for Imap or pop3 then the services are not active. Requires some configuration on the exchange side.

So check with them first.

José Méndez

9/4/2013

ASKER

OWA is working for some users, I will have to ask them to review my access privileges. I don't see traffic on IMAP or POP when running a packet capture.

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José Méndez

9/4/2013

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José Méndez

9/9/2013

ASKER

The solution was to use HTTPS access to connect to the Exchange server instead of using POP3 or SMTP.