#Davmail and java how to

Our previous tutorial on containing Chef with Vagrant may provide some guidelines, but, as always, this is left as an exercise for the reader. You can fire up basic Ubuntu machine fairly easily.

Prerequisitesįor the purposes of this article, we're going to assume that you're an enligtened sort, and are running a Ubuntu 14.04-based cloud instance (or workstation, or.). Even if your mail is boring beyond belief, please, do not access it unencrypted. Common - and well-established - solutions include the use of ssh port forwarding or (for a less ad-hoc approach) stunnel. Security is of utmost concern, particularly in a corporate environment, so please note that securing the connections between your local workstation and the cloud instance. One may find a more satisfying approach in using tools like puppet-git-receiver and Gareth Rushgrove's most excellent docker Puppet Forge module to manage the use of the upstream Docker packages as well as our container's upstart configuration - both of which will be covered in a future tutorial. For simplicity, we're using the docker.io package from Ubuntu and configuring by hand. Provisioning a CenturyLink Cloud instance is left as an exercise for the reader. Install Docker on a CenturyLink Cloud instance, provision a stateless container image running a davmail instance, and have the system manage the container via upstart. It's also standalone, can be used statelessly, and - with apologies - is Java, making it a fantastic candidate for running inside a Docker container. It's a great tool - and one of the only solutions.

#Davmail and java how to

davmail is a Java application that knows how to translate between standards-compliant clients (like, say, Thunderbird) and an Exchange server that speaks only Exchange.

This may pose a problem for you, if you prefer a non-Microsoft mail client: if the compatibility features are enabled, you'll be able to access your mail via IMAP and send over SMTP, as the Internet intended. Love it or hate it, sometimes we have to use an Exchange server to communicate.