Tutorials/Kontact/Office365

Scenario: you want to use KDEPIM Kontact 4.13.x - with cloudbased Office365.com (it might work with LAN-based exchange, untested)

This is only tested with 4.13.x KDE but might work with earlier versions.

1. Get mail working. This is fairly easy as Office365 supports both pop3 and IMAP4. Instructions for settings can be found here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/office-online-help/use-pop-or-imap-to-connect-to-office-365-for-business-or-microsoft-xchange-accounts-HA102834584.aspx#_Toc383168119 You can also chose to access mail via DavMail, see below for installation instructions. This is said to handle Outlook invitations sent via Exchange better (not tested by the author of this article). In such case when you install DavMail tick setting for IMAP and set up your KMail account accordingly

2. Get your Office365 calendar and contacts in Kontact. For this use DavMail as intermediary "go-between". So first of all install DavMail, for Debian/(x)Ubuntu users here is a deb package, for others a shell installer: http://davmail.sourceforge.net/download.html

Once that is done start DavMail and configure it. In KDE a "systray" should pop up for basic settings. "Untick" the mail settings but leave Caldav and LDAP settings. The other setting you need is OWA URL that for Office365 is https://outlook.office365.com/owa

all other settings are done in Kontact/KDEPIM

3. To get Calendar working (shared calendars are not tested, feel free to experiment): System Settings =Personal Information => Add=> DAV groupware resource => DAVical => user and password - put \[email protected] and your password, choose Davical server. For server name and path put anything, you will edit later in any case. Click "Finish"

On next menu set a name for your resource and click "Edit" on the fictional resource. Leave "CalDav" as protocol but change remote url to http://localhost:1080/users/yourname@yo ... /calendar/ and credentials to \[email protected] and your password then click "Fetch" and your Calendar should show up. Set a preferred refesh rate and in Kontacts do not forget to now tick this Calendar to activate it

4. To get your Contacts working: System Settings =Personal Information => Add=> DAV groupware resource => DAVical => user and password - put \[email protected] and your password, choose Davical server. For server name and path put anything, you will edit later in any case. Click "Finish"

On next menu set a name for your resource and click "Edit" on the fictional resource. Choose "CardDav" as protocol but change remote url to http://localhost:1080/users/yourname@yo ... /contacts/ and credentials to \[email protected] and your password then click "Fetch" and your Contacts should show up. Set a preferred refesh rate and in Kontacts do not forget to now tick this Address Book to activate it

5. Finally to access "public address books". They can be found as LDAP via Kontact/Kaddressbook in KAddressbook,-> Settings -> configure KAddressbook Then select on the left column LDAP Server Settings and click "add host"

Set this up as "host:localhost", "port:1389", "DN=ou.people", "authentication:simple" "Bind DN" as "\[email protected]" and password well you should know

next time you compose a new mail you can now use "Select" button and then "search directory service"