On our last episode of Techbits Podcast we had started talking about OUTLOOK and EXCHANGE. One question was presented by my co-host Paul “The Mac Guy” Scott which was if thunderbird was able to connect to a exchange server. I was not totally sure but felt that yes it could. Here below is how to connect Thunderbird to a Exchange Server. You will still need to convert the .pst files, and to tell thunderbird where the LDAP adress server is but that isn’t much trouble just a little time consuming depending on how large of a .pst file you have.
- Go to Tools > Account Settings
- Account Settings
- Your Name can be anything
- Email Address should be your work email address (including the “@work.com”)
- In Server Settings, Server Type should be IMAP Mail Server
- Server Name: In Outlook, go to Tools > Address Book and right-click on the pull-down on the top right (it should say “Global Address Book”) and select properties. The new window will have a text box that has your current server name in it, this is what you put into Thunderbird’s server name box.
- User name should be your login name for your PC
- “Never” should be selected for secure connection
- Edit the default outgoing server (SMTP)
- Description can be anything
- Server Name: In Outlook, go to Tools > Email Accounts > View/Change Existing > Next and double click on your default MS Exchange Server. In the new pop-up window, the top text box is the one with your outgoing server name. It might be something like server.work.com. Just put in “server” into Thunderbird’s server name box, you don’t need the “.work.com” part.
- Check “Use name and password “
- “User Name” should be your login name for your PC
- “No” should be selected for “Use secure connection”
- All other choices can be left as default, and you should now be able to get your email
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