Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Mail set up in Ubuntu 13.10

2014-01-27 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Anyone got any thoughts on this? On 24/01/2014 18:48, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I use a Hosted Exchange Email account (Office 365) and am having very odd problems connecting both in Thunderbird and Evolution. If I try to set up IMAP email in both Tbird and Evolution, it just goes into a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Mail set up in Ubuntu 13.10

2014-01-27 Thread John Oliver
Try using m.outlook.com as the server name, works for me certainly for IMAP and SMTP. I found that buried in a help and support article on the Microsoft website a few months ago and it's working right now on Thunderbird, Ubuntu 13.10. For some bizarre reason unbeknown to everyone the settings

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Mail set up in Ubuntu 13.10

2014-01-27 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Spot on! Unfortunately it now appears that the Exchange EWS add-in (to sync Contacts, Calendar and Tasks) doesn't work with that server, and neither does it work with the correct server either, so it's on to Plan B. Change my Exchange Server account to a plain IMAP account, and useFruux

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Mail set up in Ubuntu 13.10

2014-01-27 Thread John Oliver
Well regrettably the only thing I know of to connect to Exchange using thunderbird is ExQuilla which is not free. I think Evolution does/used to connect directly to EWS though - but it isn't my email application of choice. On 27/01/14 17:54, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Spot on!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Mail set up in Ubuntu 13.10

2014-01-27 Thread Andres
Change my Exchange Server account to a plain IMAP account, and useFruux https://fruux.com/ to sync Contacts, calendar and Tasks. (Besides which, it's much cheaper than Office 365 and Open Source!) Wow thay fruux thing sounds amazing! Seems simpler than an owncloud account. -- Enviado

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Mail set up in Ubuntu 13.10

2014-01-27 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Yes - and it's open source and it's not American! (Not that I have anything against Americans per se, but it's nice to see something like that in Europe!) On 27/01/2014 22:38, Andres wrote: Change my Exchange Server account to a plain IMAP account, and useFruux https://fruux.com/ to sync