How to Connect Thunderbird to a Microsoft Exchange Server
Mozilla Thunderbird provides you with an application for email and can receive and send email through a Microsoft Exchange server. Thunderbird has a user-friendly interface and is freely available from the Mozilla website. The Thunderbird software is configured to work with Exchange in the settings window and can be set up in just a few minutes.
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Instructions
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Open Thunderbird and click the "Tools" menu option an select "Account Settings." Click "Account Settings" again to start the process for the Exchange connection.
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Enter your full name at the first window. This name is what email recipients see for your name in their inbox. In the following text box, enter your email address and click the "Next" button.
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Select "IMAP Mail Server" from the drop-down window. Enter the Exchange server name in the IMAP Server Name text box. In the Outgoing Server text box, enter the Exchange server name again. Click "Next."
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Check the box labeled "Username and password." Enter your current username used to log into the machine. Remove the check mark in the box labeled "Use secure connection."
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All other options should be able to be left as the default.
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Click "Finish."
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frosty555
Nov 27, 2010
This article explains how to connect Thunderbird to a plaintext, basic, unsecured IMAP account. Keep in mind the IMAP service is disabled in a default installation of Exchange Server, so your system administrator need to explicitly turn it on. They also need to set the server to explicitly not require any form of encryption, which is also not the default setting, and most system administrator won't do that for the security risks. Secondly, this article doesn't describe anything about setting up your SMTP server, which you must do in order to send emails. Again, you can use the exchange server, but the server has to be configured to accept and route emails from third parties, and again, encryption and authentication settings need to be set. Any paranoid system administrator will certainly not enable this, again for security risks and also because of the possibility of spam abuse on...
