Re: Mutt and Exchange

[Grant Edwards]

On 2014-09-09, John Niendorf  wrote:
> Hello Mutters,
>
> I'm using Mutt to access my personal IMAP account, but was wondering if 
> there is a way to use Mutt to connect to my work Exchange 2010 account?
>
> I'm using Thunderbird that has an add-on that allows T-bird to connect to 
> Exchange using the Outlook Web Access settings.
>
> Has anyone ever connected to Exchange with Mutt?

Yes.  The Exchange IMAP server doesn't suck too badly, and mutt will
work fine with it.   If your exchange server doesn't have IMAP
enabled, then you may be able to use the davmail gateway
http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

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Re: Mutt and Exchange

[Wilfried Grieger]

Hallo Dave,

> I'm connecting to Exchange (Office 365) with mutt via IMAP.
> 
> Mutt keeps losing its connection every time Microsoft shuffles virtual
> mail servers around.
> 
> Is there a better way?
> 

please try

set imap_check_subscribed=yes
set imap_keepalive=300
set imap_passive=no

in your muttrc.


Best wishes
Wilfried



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Re: Mutt and Exchange

[Dave Botsch]

I'm connecting to Exchange (Office 365) with mutt via IMAP.

Mutt keeps losing its connection every time Microsoft shuffles virtual
mail servers around.

Is there a better way?

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:20:26PM +0200, Wilfried Grieger wrote:
> Hallo John,
> 
> > 
> > I'm using Mutt to access my personal IMAP account, but was wondering if 
> > there is a way to use Mutt to connect to my work Exchange 2010 account?
> > 
> > I'm using Thunderbird that has an add-on that allows T-bird to connect to 
> > Exchange using the Outlook Web Access settings.
> > 
> > Has anyone ever connected to Exchange with Mutt?
> > 
> 
> yes, there is no problem. Do you need any configuration parameters?
> 
> Best wishes
> Wilfried



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Re: Mutt and Exchange

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Tuesday, September 09, 2014 a las 03:05:29PM +0200, John Niendorf 
escribió:

> Hello Mutters,
> 
> I'm using Mutt to access my personal IMAP account, but was wondering if 
> there is a way to use Mutt to connect to my work Exchange 2010 account?
> 
> I'm using Thunderbird that has an add-on that allows T-bird to connect to 
> Exchange using the Outlook Web Access settings.
> 
> Has anyone ever connected to Exchange with Mutt?

I do use mutt with Exchange (owa365), but this server supports IMAPS; I
I think Exchange 2010 can be configured as well for IMAP(S) support. If
not you could check FetchExc from
http://personal.inet.fi/atk/fetchexc/

HIH

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Re: Mutt and Exchange

[Wilfried Grieger]

Hallo John,

> 
> I'm using Mutt to access my personal IMAP account, but was wondering if 
> there is a way to use Mutt to connect to my work Exchange 2010 account?
> 
> I'm using Thunderbird that has an add-on that allows T-bird to connect to 
> Exchange using the Outlook Web Access settings.
> 
> Has anyone ever connected to Exchange with Mutt?
> 

yes, there is no problem. Do you need any configuration parameters?

Best wishes
Wilfried


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Re: Mutt and Exchange

[Mark H. Wood]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:05:29PM +0200, John Niendorf wrote:
> I'm using Mutt to access my personal IMAP account, but was wondering if 
> there is a way to use Mutt to connect to my work Exchange 2010 account?
> 
> I'm using Thunderbird that has an add-on that allows T-bird to connect to 
> Exchange using the Outlook Web Access settings.
> 
> Has anyone ever connected to Exchange with Mutt?

Yes, with...IMAP.  But the folks running Exchange have to enable that.

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Mutt and Exchange

[John Niendorf]

Hello Mutters,

I'm using Mutt to access my personal IMAP account, but was wondering if 
there is a way to use Mutt to connect to my work Exchange 2010 account?


I'm using Thunderbird that has an add-on that allows T-bird to connect to 
Exchange using the Outlook Web Access settings.


Has anyone ever connected to Exchange with Mutt?


--
Thank you,

John

Re: [OT] LDAP lookups (Was: Re: mutt and exchange)

[Mike Leone]

* Gerhard Häring ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote this on 10 01, 02 at 21:32: 
> * Mike Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-30 22:03 -0400]:
> > Exchange, by default, makes it's Global Address Books available via LDAP, so
> > anything that reads LDAP can read it off of Exchange that way. Not so for
> > personal address books.
> 
> The Active Directory flavour, right? As far as I understand, A. D. has
> an incompatible auth method, and thus cannot be accessed by "normal"
> LDAP tools

No, I can access my Exchange 5.5 GAL via a LDAP lookup from Outlook Express.
No AD involved; this is NT 4.





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Re: [OT] LDAP lookups (Was: Re: mutt and exchange)

[Gerhard Häring]

* Mike Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-30 22:03 -0400]:
> Exchange, by default, makes it's Global Address Books available via LDAP, so
> anything that reads LDAP can read it off of Exchange that way. Not so for
> personal address books.

The Active Directory flavour, right? As far as I understand, A. D. has
an incompatible auth method, and thus cannot be accessed by "normal"
LDAP tools

That's why I hacked a quick Python script to access A. D. via M$'s ADSI
COM interface. This is about semi-working for me.

The real "fun" is my IMAP filtering on the Exchange server by
downloading everything, running it through my filters (custom Python
ones and spamassassin), then putting it back in the right folders. I've
heard that's what IMAP's for. 

-- Gerhard

Re: [OT] LDAP lookups (Was: Re: mutt and exchange)

[David Britton]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:03:26PM -0400, Mike Leone wrote:
> 
> Exchange, by default, makes it's Global Address Books available via
> LDAP, so anything that reads LDAP can read it off of Exchange that
> way. Not so for personal address books.

Thanks for the tip...  Good info.

/db

Re: mutt and exchange

[David Rock]

* Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-01 20:54]:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 the mental interface of 
> David Rock told:
> 
> > * Michael Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-26 13:17]:
> > > Gregory Seidman said:
> [...] 
> > 
> > > Good question. Dunno how mutt integrates with LDAP, but I know I
> > > have used Outlook Express to query a GAL via LDAP. If you need
> > > to configure a firewall or anything, LDAP access is port 389, I
> > > believe.
> > 
> > Look for muttldapquery.pl in the contribs. It does a good job
> > connecting to the LDAP on the Exchange server.
> I didn't find that stuff whether in mutt contrib no at
> google-search?

ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/contrib/

contains mutt_ldap_query.pl and the associated readme file. It was my
fault for not correctly describing the name of the pl file.

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Re: mutt and exchange

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 the mental interface of 
David Rock told:

> * Michael Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-26 13:17]:
> > Gregory Seidman said:
[...] 
> 
> > Good question. Dunno how mutt integrates with LDAP, but I know I
> > have used Outlook Express to query a GAL via LDAP. If you need
> > to configure a firewall or anything, LDAP access is port 389, I
> > believe.
> 
> Look for muttldapquery.pl in the contribs. It does a good job
> connecting to the LDAP on the Exchange server.
I didn't find that stuff whether in mutt contrib no at
google-search?

Elimar

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Re: mutt and exchange

[Cristiano Reis Monteiro]

... então, em 26 de setembro de 2002, Gregory Seidman disse ...

> it's LDAP? Perhaps it has something to do with the query functions? Do I
> need an external program to help? Is there a HOWTO somewhere (Google did

Hello,

You can use the mutt external query function together with the "Little
Brother Database" to query an LDAP server.

I have the following entry within my .muttrc:

set query_command="lbdbq %s"

You can download lbdb at:

http://www.spinnaker.de/lbdb/

HTH,

- Cristiano

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Re: [OT] LDAP lookups (Was: Re: mutt and exchange)

[Mike Leone]

* David Britton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote this on 09 30, 02 at 19:46: 
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:29:52AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> >
> > In particular, it is my understanding that there is some
> > way to use the global (and personal?) address book(s) on the server. Maybe
> > it's LDAP? 
> 
> If so than you may be in luck.
> 
> > Perhaps it has something to do with the query functions? Do I need an
> > external program to help? 
> 
> Absolutely you will.  Thus, the rest of this mail is a bit "Off-Topic"
> for this list.
> 
> > Is there a HOWTO somewhere (Google did not find anything useful for
> > "mutt exchange howto")?
> 
> Mutt would have nothing to do with this...  So your search probably
> wouldn't be that useful...  Furthermore, I don't know of a way (outside
> of maybe Ximian's "Exchange Connector" program) to interface with
> Exchange address books from non-M$ platforms.  If you have an LDAP

Exchange, by default, makes it's Global Address Books available via LDAP, so
anything that reads LDAP can read it off of Exchange that way. Not so for
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Re: mutt and exchange

[David Rock]

* Michael Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-26 13:17]:
> Gregory Seidman said:
> > Happily, I have mutt playing nice with the Exchange server at work over
> > IMAP. This pleases me. Now I am looking for further interaction with the
> > Exchange server. In particular, it is my understanding that there is
> > some way to use the global (and personal?) address book(s) on the
> > server. Maybe it's LDAP?
> 
> By default, Exchange turns on POP and IMAP, and also LDAP. You can browse
> the GAL (Global Address List) via LDAP, but not personal address books.
> 
> > Perhaps it has something to do with the query
> > functions? Do I need an external program to help? Is there a HOWTO
> > somewhere (Google did not find anything useful for "mutt exchange
> > howto")?
> 
> Good question. Dunno how mutt integrates with LDAP, but I know I have used
> Outlook Express to query a GAL via LDAP. If you need to configure a
> firewall or anything, LDAP access is port 389, I believe.

Look for muttldapquery.pl in the contribs. It does a good job connecting
to the LDAP on the Exchange server.

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[OT] LDAP lookups (Was: Re: mutt and exchange)

[David Britton]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:29:52AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote:
>
> In particular, it is my understanding that there is some
> way to use the global (and personal?) address book(s) on the server. Maybe
> it's LDAP? 

If so than you may be in luck.

> Perhaps it has something to do with the query functions? Do I need an
> external program to help? 

Absolutely you will.  Thus, the rest of this mail is a bit "Off-Topic"
for this list.

> Is there a HOWTO somewhere (Google did not find anything useful for
> "mutt exchange howto")?

Mutt would have nothing to do with this...  So your search probably
wouldn't be that useful...  Furthermore, I don't know of a way (outside
of maybe Ximian's "Exchange Connector" program) to interface with
Exchange address books from non-M$ platforms.  If you have an LDAP
server at your office, you might want to try a google search for "mutt
LDAP".  This seems to be a more logical choice (And returned a couple
interesting hits when I ran it).

But there is nothing in mutt (other than it's ability to read data from
external programs), that can interface with an Exchange server.

/db

Re: mutt and exchange

[Michael Leone]

Gregory Seidman said:
> Happily, I have mutt playing nice with the Exchange server at work over
> IMAP. This pleases me. Now I am looking for further interaction with the
> Exchange server. In particular, it is my understanding that there is
> some way to use the global (and personal?) address book(s) on the
> server. Maybe it's LDAP?

By default, Exchange turns on POP and IMAP, and also LDAP. You can browse
the GAL (Global Address List) via LDAP, but not personal address books.

> Perhaps it has something to do with the query
> functions? Do I need an external program to help? Is there a HOWTO
> somewhere (Google did not find anything useful for "mutt exchange
> howto")?

Good question. Dunno how mutt integrates with LDAP, but I know I have used
Outlook Express to query a GAL via LDAP. If you need to configure a
firewall or anything, LDAP access is port 389, I believe.

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mutt and exchange

[Gregory Seidman]

Happily, I have mutt playing nice with the Exchange server at work over
IMAP. This pleases me. Now I am looking for further interaction with the
Exchange server. In particular, it is my understanding that there is some
way to use the global (and personal?) address book(s) on the server. Maybe
it's LDAP? Perhaps it has something to do with the query functions? Do I
need an external program to help? Is there a HOWTO somewhere (Google did
not find anything useful for "mutt exchange howto")?

--Greg

Re: mutt and exchange

[David T-G]

Greg --

...and then Gregory Seidman said...
% 
...
% When I run mutt -f imap://server/ it asks for my username and password,
% then tells me that the login failed. The username and password are right,

I've seen this once or twice, and not even with an Exchange server (ick).
My problem was that I had a folder-hook that pushed and mucked up my
password, so my initial login attempt always failed.

What if you

  mutt -f /dev/null

and then

  c imap://username@server/

to avoid any pushing or other hook nonsense?  If that works, then you can
track down what your muttrc is doing and either kill it or make sure it
doesn't apply to this folder.


HTH & HAND

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Re: mutt and exchange

[Timothy R. Robnett]

On Thu Sep 05, 2002 at 03:30:28AM +0200, Corren Vorwerk wrote:
> i also had the prob with my mutt.
> without putting my password into my muttrc - i think its much saver on
> most computers but mine at home - i found something strange out.
> 
> when i "backspaced" on the password-question and tham typed my
> password it worked. 
> so there was some prob with the login. well the sad thing is, that i
> didn't find out any solution but this i just told you. 

you can also use the form
imap://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/INBOX

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Re: mutt and exchange

[Mike Leone]

* David Rock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote this on 09 04, 02 at 18:05: 
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:27:19PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> > Michael Leone sez:

Just to be clear .. I did *not* say the following.

> > 
> > Well, I guessed a couple of workgroups, which didn't work, but I don't know
> > what workgroup I am in. Is there any way to tell from Windows XP
> > Professional (which is where I have Outlook working)? I don't believe the
> > machine itself is part of a workgroup, since I installed WinXP on it
> > myself. I don't recall entering a workgroup anywhere at all.

Re: mutt and exchange

[Corren Vorwerk]

Hi Gregory!

i also had the prob with my mutt.
without putting my password into my muttrc - i think its much saver on
most computers but mine at home - i found something strange out.

when i "backspaced" on the password-question and tham typed my
password it worked. 
so there was some prob with the login. well the sad thing is, that i
didn't find out any solution but this i just told you. 

try it for yourself like i just told you. maybe this leads you to find
the prob.

cu
corren

On Wed, 04 Sep 2002, Gregory Seidman wrote:

> I looked around for information on how to do this, but didn't find any. I
> would like to be able to deal with my email using mutt, as I have for a
> year or two. Unfortunately, the job I now have uses MS Exchange for email
> and I can't seem to get mutt talking to it.
> 
> When I run mutt -f imap://server/ it asks for my username and password,
> then tells me that the login failed. The username and password are right,
> since I use them successfully with Outlook. Much the same thing happens
> with Mozilla mail, incidentally. Is there any way to get more information?
> Is imap the wrong choice for dealing with Exchange? Do I need something
> more in the URL?
> 
> --Greg
> 
> 



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Re: mutt and exchange

[David Rock]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:27:19PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> Michael Leone sez:
> 
> Well, I guessed a couple of workgroups, which didn't work, but I don't know
> what workgroup I am in. Is there any way to tell from Windows XP
> Professional (which is where I have Outlook working)? I don't believe the
> machine itself is part of a workgroup, since I installed WinXP on it
> myself. I don't recall entering a workgroup anywhere at all.

I have this in my .muttrc:

set imap_user=username
set imap_pass=password

This works just fine for me connecting to Exchange 5.5 IMAP, no domain
information is necessary. Also, I didn't happen to notice what version of Mutt
you are using. The 1.2 branch has really bad IMAP support. You might want to
try the 1.3 or 1.4 branches if you aren't using them already.

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Re: mutt and exchange

[Gregory Seidman]

Michael Leone sez:
} 
} Elimar Riesebieter said:
} 
} > No! The admin has to enable imap. Does he knows how to?
} 
} I believe that IMAP is enabled by default on Exchange (it was on mine, I
} believe). So if it's not running, the admin must have turned it off.

I have determined that IMAP is enabled, and that the servername I was using
in Outlook does map to an IP address.

Omen Wild sez:
} Quoting Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Sep 04 15:21:
} > Unfortunately, the job I now have uses MS Exchange for email and I
} > can't seem to get mutt talking to it.
} 
} At my previous job it took me a while to get fetchmail working with
} Exchange.  It has been a while, but I seem to remember that my username
} included the Windows Workgroup in it: "\\WORKGROUP\USERNAME".  Or maybe
} after escaping the backslashes it was this: WORKGROUP\\USERNAME .
} Try something like that.

Well, I guessed a couple of workgroups, which didn't work, but I don't know
what workgroup I am in. Is there any way to tell from Windows XP
Professional (which is where I have Outlook working)? I don't believe the
machine itself is part of a workgroup, since I installed WinXP on it
myself. I don't recall entering a workgroup anywhere at all.

} Omen
--Greg

Re: mutt and exchange

[Michael Leone]

Gregory Seidman said:
>
> When I run mutt -f imap://server/ it asks for my username and password,
> then tells me that the login failed. The username and password are
> right, since I use them successfully with Outlook. Much the same thing
> happens with Mozilla mail, incidentally. Is there any way to get more
> information? Is imap the wrong choice for dealing with Exchange? Do I
> need something more in the URL?

Try adding the domain to the username

domainname\username

(note backslash)

This allows you to authenticate to the MS domain, to login.

>
> --Greg


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Re: mutt and exchange

[Michael Leone]

Elimar Riesebieter said:

> No! The admin has to enable imap. Does he knows how to?

I believe that IMAP is enabled by default on Exchange (it was on mine, I
believe). So if it's not running, the admin must have turned it off.

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Re: mutt and exchange

[Omen Wild]

Quoting Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Sep 04 15:21:
>
> Unfortunately, the job I now have uses MS Exchange for email and I
> can't seem to get mutt talking to it.

At my previous job it took me a while to get fetchmail working with
Exchange.  It has been a while, but I seem to remember that my username
included the Windows Workgroup in it: "\\WORKGROUP\USERNAME".  Or maybe
after escaping the backslashes it was this: WORKGROUP\\USERNAME .
Try something like that.

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Re: mutt and exchange

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 the mental interface of Gregory Seidman told:

> I looked around for information on how to do this, but didn't find any. I
> would like to be able to deal with my email using mutt, as I have for a
> year or two. Unfortunately, the job I now have uses MS Exchange for email
> and I can't seem to get mutt talking to it.
> 
> When I run mutt -f imap://server/ it asks for my username and password,
> then tells me that the login failed. The username and password are right,

Ask your M$ -Administrator. Does he exists?

> since I use them successfully with Outlook. Much the same thing happens
> with Mozilla mail, incidentally. Is there any way to get more information?
> Is imap the wrong choice for dealing with Exchange? Do I need something

No! The admin has to enable imap. Does he knows how to?

> more in the URL?
> 
> --Greg

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mutt and exchange

[Gregory Seidman]

I looked around for information on how to do this, but didn't find any. I
would like to be able to deal with my email using mutt, as I have for a
year or two. Unfortunately, the job I now have uses MS Exchange for email
and I can't seem to get mutt talking to it.

When I run mutt -f imap://server/ it asks for my username and password,
then tells me that the login failed. The username and password are right,
since I use them successfully with Outlook. Much the same thing happens
with Mozilla mail, incidentally. Is there any way to get more information?
Is imap the wrong choice for dealing with Exchange? Do I need something
more in the URL?

--Greg