The good news is that IMAP is common almost all email services support it. For this technique to work, the account must support a protocol called IMAP. The technique I’ll use applies to almost all online accounts, including Gmail, Yahoo!, and others. Our example: and Hotmailįor this article, I’m going to use a Hotmail account: I’ll continue to access that account as I usually do, using the website, but we’ll back it up to my PC using Thunderbird. You’ll also need to periodically manually export and download your contacts to back them up as well.
Leave Thunderbird running (or run it periodically) to make sure your backups are up to date. Again, DavMail can be used here as an alternative to EWS.Configure Thunderbird to access and download your email using your email service’s IMAP settings to back up. It is partially unstable beta software.įinally, calendar and address book can be “outsourced” from Thunderbird by independently setting up iCal and Address Book in OSX. This way the Exchange address book can be integrated via the DavMail Gateway's address: Exchange Calendar PluginĬan be added as an alternative. For this purpose create a new LDAP Directory in Thunderbird's address book with the settings host=, LDAP base context ou=people and Port 1389.Īlternatively, Thunderbird understands CardDAV with the Sogo Connector Plugin. The calendar is integrated as a network calendar type CalDAV with the address (Where userid is the GWDG username.)įor addresses the global Exchange Address Book can be integrated with DavMail. The proven way to access the Exchange calendar and address book is the DavMail Gateway. The basis for calendar under Thunderbird is the Lightning Plugin. As described above Thunderbird does not support Microsoft's MAPI or EWS protocols.īut there are also other possibilities with Thunderbird to access Exchange calendar and address book functionality.
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