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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

How to Setting up Mutt and IMAP for email through Exchange Web Services EWS using DavMail

1)
Setting up the DavMail server
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a)
Download DavMail

http://davmail.sourceforge.net/download.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/davmail/files/latest/download?source=files

b)
Install DavMail

sudo apt-get install libswt-gtk-3-java
sudo dpkg -i davmail_4.4.1-2225-1_all.deb




c)
Launch DavMail

* You can then launch DavMail via the Applications/Internet menu.
* Or type "davmail" in terminal and press enter

d)
DavMail Settings

* Right Click on "DavMail" icon, select "Settings".
* Then select "EWS" from 'Exchange Protocol' dropdown.
* Then type "https://webmail.your.company.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx" in 'OWA (Exchange) URL' text field.
* The rest of the settings can be left at defaults.
* Click on "save" button

DavMail Tutorial : http://davmail.sourceforge.net/gettingstarted.html

e)
Kill DavMail (Optional)

ps -aux | grep davmail
#Kill all davmail instances
sudo killall -9 java

2)
Setting up msmtp SMTP client
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* Sendmail is the standard for SMTP, but that is not simpler if you’re just setting up a single user local email environment. msmtp is simpler to configure and adequate for single user email needs.

a)
Install msmtp

sudo apt-get install msmtp
touch ~/.msmtprc ~/.msmtp.log
chmod 600 ~/.msmtprc ~/.msmtp.log


b)
Add following lines in ~/.msmtprc
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defaults
logfile ~/.msmtp.log

account default
host localhost
port 1025
protocol smtp
from saju.madhavan@myorg.com
#auth on
user IN\saju.madhavan
password mypassword

#auto_from off
#tls off

#tls on
#tls_starttls on
#tls_certcheck off
auth login


3)
Setting up mutt for email
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a)
Add following lines in ~/.muttrc
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set spoolfile="imap://saju.madhavan:mypassword@127.0.0.1:1143/Inbox"
set folder="imap://saju.madhavan:mypassword@127.0.0.1:1143"
set from="saju.madhavan@myorg.com"
set realname='Saju Madhavan'
set trash="imap://saju.madhavan:mypassword@127.0.0.1:1143/Trash"
set imap_user="saju.madhavan@myorg.com"
set imap_pass="mypassword"
set imap_keepalive=900   # Set lower if connection times out
set header_cache=~/.mutt/cache/headers
set message_cachedir=~/.mutt/cache/bodies

##SMTP,For Sent mail
set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp"
#set envelope_from=yes
my_hdr From: "saju.madhavan@myorg.com"

##Sort by newest conversation first.
set sort = reverse-threads
set sort_aux = last-date-received
















1 comment:

  1. Add following line in ~/.muttrc

    ##Set VIM editor to create new email
    set editor='vim'

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