Hi Martin It looks like the Microsoft365 server can deliver mail via IMAP, POP3 or their proprietary Exchage Web Server (EWS) protocols with EWS as the default since 2020. I'm not sure why you're attracted to DavMail. I hope you've checked the bug tracker. https://sourceforge.net/p/davmail/support-requests/ Evolution is a mail client that is integrated with Gnome, and has a setting to select EWS for connecting with 365. This link may be helpful for configuring Evolution. https://sites.utexas.edu/glenmark/2021/02/01/how-to-setup-your-office-365-email-using-evolution-ews-linux/ If that doesn't suit you, another solution would be to cobble together a script to download the messages and deliver them to /var/spool/mail/username for any mail client to use. In Python, the ExchangeLib module can download mail from an EWS server, offers sample code, and has a recent release. https://pypi.org/project/exchangelib/ https://github.com/ecederstrand/exchangelib/issues Disclaimer: I've not used this library and know little about Python. > After running across a unix application called DavMail or just > davmail in lower case, this seemed like my wildest prayers had > been answered. The Microsoft365 mailbox in question is provided > by my employer that I retired from in 2015 which means that if I > can get it to work, I can use an email address that I used for > 25 years once again. > > My current email is working fine right now but that > provider doesn't even offer email to new cable subscribers and > they have a record of making changes to their platform without > any warnings so The prudent thing to do is to get another email > provider while this one still works. > > The davmail application connects to your MS365 mailbox and > lets you read messages via IMAP, POP, etc using existing > non proprietary mail transport agents such as mut, thunderbird and > the like. > > It can run either as a headless server on some system in > your private network and then you make IMAP or POP connections to > it with another computer on your net or you can use a mailer on > the very system running the davmail app and do all your work > using localhost. > > The davmail app is written in java and the GUI interface > is totally broken so I don't get the davmail tray so my first > question is is there something I can install on the system that > runs gnome which will make the java-based GUI work? > > My last question is has anybody here gotten davmail to do > anything but keep one occupied, poking at this and wondering > about that but never getting anything good to happen? > > If you run the app in server mode, it does respond to the > ports it says it is listening on but immediately complains about > a wrong openssl version. I've tried davmail's buster version on > an I86 box running Debian10, a raspberry Pi running bullseye > with no GUI and a 64-bit bullseye version running on a HP PC which > is the gnome platform. > > All malfunction in exactly the same way and even more > aggravating, the logs don't say much at all. > > The login credentials to the mailbox work since I can log > in to the web mail gateway via Windows and edge but that's not > what I want for the long run. > > The only reason I want the GUI is in hopes it might cough > up some tidbit of diagnostic since I am not sure it even gets as > far as establishing contact with the MS365 servers. > > The other possibilities for accessing the MS365 mailbox > involve buying commercial software to use applications I don't > really want to use. > > For those who are curious, davmail does not store your > login credentials but passes them on from whatever mail transport > agent one is using. The only really specific information it > needs is the url to the MS365 address for your organization. > > Thanks in advance for any useful information one might have. > > Martin McCormick -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list