From MozillaZine Knowledge Base

This article was written for Thunderbird but also applies to Mozilla Suite / SeaMonkey (though some menu sequences may differ).

Outlook Web Access (OWA) gives Microsoft Exchange users direct access to their mailbox, calendar, contacts, public folders, and the Global Address List (GAL) using a browser. Thunderbird doesn't support OWA because it requires WebDAV support, and Thunderbird only supports fetching mail using POP3 and IMAP.

Freepops is a add-on that supports many different webmail implementations. It looks like they've started a project to add support for OWA to FreePOPs. Take a look in thier forums to find the status.

MrPostman has two scripts to support OWA.

Pop2OWA Open source mail proxy program for Outlook Web Access written in Visual Basic.

fetchExc is a program written in Java to fetch mail from OWA

The webmail extension author has posted instructions on how to configure a generic webmail extension for a domain and suggested it could be used to access a Microsoft Exchange server via HTTP. However, he also stated that the extension just responds to Thunderbird commands - you need to provide provide the login and download code.

DavMail is a POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/LDAP gateway allowing any e-mail/calendar client to access Exchange via OWA. Its written in Java and doesn't seem to require tweaking any scripts like the other solutions do.

See also

• Using webmail with your email client

External links

• WebDAV
• Microsoft Exchange clients
• Mozillazine forum thread on OWA .
• "Safe HTML" filter in OWA corrupts HTML attachments