Re: [linux] Using Thunderbird (or other email clients) with Office 365 servers

2019-02-26 Thread Brett Delmage
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, J C Nash wrote: But the msg from our IT crowd above suggests no go anyway. Sucks. the Hiri client can connect OK (This is $$ and the configuration appears to be encrypted in the 7 day trial.) from

Re: [linux] Using Thunderbird (or other email clients) with Office 365 servers

2019-02-26 Thread J C Nash
There were some other suggestions, and some different port choices, but Ian!s msg is most detailed. Some responses and queries below. I believe that the issue will be resolvable with some appropriate settings, since the Hiri client can connect OK (This is $$ and the configuration appears to be

Re: [linux] Using Thunderbird (or other email clients) with Office 365 servers

2019-02-26 Thread James Lockie
I don't think pop and imap have to be enabled on the MS software. They don't need to block the port, the software might not listen. On February 26, 2019 12:37:56 PM "Ian! D. Allen" wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 09:31:06AM -0500, J C Nash wrote: I've been trying to get a connection from TBird

Re: [linux] Using Thunderbird (or other email clients) with Office 365 servers

2019-02-26 Thread Ian! D. Allen
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 09:31:06AM -0500, J C Nash wrote: > I've been trying to get a connection from TBird to the uOttawa Office 365 > setup. > So far: > - tried IMAP -- after query have been told uOttawa has decided to block IMAP > and POP. I'm curious about the above statement, since I use

[linux] Using Thunderbird (or other email clients) with Office 365 servers

2019-02-26 Thread J C Nash
About a day after I left for Florida, uOttawa switched to Office 365 from Exchange. The Exchange server was bad enough -- took me a while to get DAVmail to provide a suitable middleware to allow me to use Thunderbird. Background: I use uOttawa as my "professional" email. My handle there has