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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,

Member_2_6492660_1

I found this

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

Hope this helps

Jason Watkins

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

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

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

Member_2_6492660_1

you can also find it by doing this

Nslookup -ty=mx domain.com

José Méndez

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

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

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

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