Setting up thunderbird 17 on Linux with Exchange server 2010 emails, contacts and calendar
Are you running Thunderbird 17 (beta)??
Lets see the components required for setup this time —
Basic
Thunderbird 17
Setup ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-next
Setup your exchange email account with MAPI plugin.
Subscribe to folders. After you add the account right click on it in the main window (left pane) -> “Subscribe…” -> Select all folders
Calendar
Install following add-ons –
- Lightning 1.9b2Provides calendar feature in thunderbird
- Exchange 2007/2010 Calendar and Tasks Provider 3.1.1Allows to sync Calendar and Tasks with Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010 Exchange Web Services server using LightningDescription: http://www.1st-setup.nl/wordpress/?page_id=133
Contacts setup
This the tricky part. I am posting the settings/steps that worked for me after reading numerous forums on the internet
Steps
- Launch address book (CTRL+SHIFT+B)
- Menu -> File -> New -> LDAP directoryYou should see “Directory Server Properties” window
- Setup the window with following settings
- Name: Name of the addressbook (could be any string)
- Hostname: name of the ldap server (in my case it was thecompanyname.co.in)
- Base DN: Samples –
- dc=companyname,dc=co,dc=in
- dc=companyname,dc=com
- Port number: Change 389 to 3268This step is very very important, 389 works but is really very very slow. 3268 works and is quite fast.
- Press OK to exit the dialogYou now lookup contact details in the address book. Password will be asked for the first time.
- Thunderbird->menu->Edit->Preferences->Composition->Addressing-> Check “Directory Server: ” and select the created addressbook.This will help in auto completion of email addresses while writing new mails.
