Overview

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Thunderbird KIT mailbox

Status: Thunderbird 115.x

Notes

Add another account in Thunderbird:

  • Application menu (three horizontal lines) - Account settings.
  • Account actions - Add mail Account..

Configuration (Mail)

  • When you first start Thunderbird, you will be greeted by a wizard to set up your account, which you should follow.
  • Enter the following data:
    • Your name: last name, first name (OE).
    • Email address: <ab1234<@kit.edu as an employee
      (Students: <uxxxx>@student.kit.edu; guests and partners: <ab1234>@partner.kit.edu).
    • Password: your corresponding password
  • Continue
  • Done
  • Finish
    •  Application menu (three horizontal lines) - Account Settings - <Account>
    • Email Address: your depseudonymized email address, e.g. <firstname.lastname>@kit.edu

The Thunderbird configuration is successfully completed.

Settings (Mail)

  • Application menu (three horizontal lines) - Account Settings - <Account> - Server Settings
    • Server Name: imap.kit.edu (port 993)
    • User Name: <ab1234∂kit.e du as employee:in
      (students: <uxxxx>∂student.kit.edu; guests and partners: <ab1234>∂partner.kit.edu)
    • Connection security: SSL/TLS
    • Authentication method: Normal password
  • Application menu (three horizontal lines) - Account settings - <Account> - Edit SMTP server..
  • .
    • Server Name: smtp.kit.edu
    • Port: 587
    • Connection security: STARTTLS
    • Authentication method: Normal password
    • User name: <ab1234∂kit.edu as employee:in
      (students: <uxxxx>∂student.kit.edu; guests and partners: <ab1234>∂partner.kit.edu)

Calendar (Tasks)

You can use CalDAV to access calendars in your own mailbox or in another mailbox.

To access a calendar in another mailbox, you need at least read permissions (equivalent to "All Details" in Outlook/OWA) on it. Starting with Thunderbird 91, you also need the "Folder visible" permission on the top folder of the mailbox so that Thunderbird can search for available calendars.
If it is not the default calendar, you need read permissions to the complete path, i.e. to all parent folders.

Besides the calendar, the tasks are also synchronized.

For calendars to which you have read-only permissions (e.g. a room), it is recommended to activate the "Read-only" option.

 

Access to the default calendar

 

Access to a calendar other than the default calendar

You can also access a calendar other than the default calendar.

  • The prerequisite is that the folder already exists. You cannot create a new calendar in the mailbox via CALDAV.
  • If you create a new calendar via OWA, it will be created below the default calendar.
  • Address: https://caldav.scc.kit.edu/users/<sender-email-address-from-mailbox>/path-to-folder

Calendar below the default calendar

employees https://caldav.scc.kit.edu/users/firstname lastname∂kit edu/calendar/folder-name.
Functional mailbox https://caldav.scc.kit.edu/users/name∂oe kit edu/calendar/folder-name
Students anonymized https://caldav.scc.kit.edu/users/uabcd∂student kit edu/calendar/folder name
Students deanonymized https://caldav.scc.kit.edu/users/firstname lastname∂student kit edu/calendar/foldername

Calendar outside of default calendar

employees https://caldav.scc.kit.edu/users/firstname lastname∂kit edu/foldername[/subfoldername]
Functional mailbox https://caldav.scc.kit.edu/users/name∂oe kit edu/folder name[/subfolder name]
Students anonymized https://caldav.scc.kit.edu/users/uabcd∂student kit edu/folder name[/subfolder name]
Students deanonymized https://caldav.scc.kit.edu/users/firstname lastname∂student kit edu/foldername[/subfoldername]

Contacts

Note: You can also install and use an add-on such as CardBook.

  • Address Book
  • New Address Book (drop down) - Add CardDAV Address Book.
  • Address: https://carddav.scc.kit.edu/users/<sender-email-address>/contacts
employees https://carddav.scc.kit.edu/users/firstname lastname∂kit edu/contacts
Functional mailbox https://carddav.scc.kit.edu/users/name∂oe kit edu/contacts
Guests and partners https://carddav.scc.kit.edu/users/firstname lastname∂partner kit edu/contacts
Students pseudomized https://carddav.scc.kit.edu/users/uabcd∂student kit edu/contacts
Students depseudomized https://carddav.scc.kit.edu/users/firstname lastname∂student kit edu/contacts

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  • If you have multiple contact folders, select the one you want.

 

Global address book (internal only)

 

add LDAP address book

  • Address book
  • New address books (dropdown) - add LDAP address book
    • Name: freely selectable, e.g. KIT-AD
    • Server address: kit-ad.scc.kit.edu
    • Base DN: dc=kit,dc=edu
    • Port number: 3269
    • Bind-DN: <ab1234>@kit.edu as an employee
      (Students: <uxxxx>@student.kit.edu; guests and partners: <ab1234>@partner.kit.edu).
    • Use secure connection (SSL): yes.
    • Advanced
      • Search filter: (objectclass=*)(mail=*)

You have to authenticate when accessing it.

If you have a user certificate in Thunderbird, Thunderbird uses it when accessing the KIT-AD.

 

Search in LDAP address book

Show "Display name" as name in search result

  • Tools - Preferences - General- Config Editor... (at the very bottom).
  • change ldap_2.servers.default.attrmap.DisplayName from "cn,commonname" to "displayName


 

automatic search in LDAP address book for message addressing

  • Application menu (three horizontal lines) - Account settings - <account name> - Composition & Addressing
    • Use my global LDAP server preferences for this account
    • Global Addressing Preferences...
      • Directory Server: <name of the address book created above>
  • Always search LDAP directory even if there are matches in the local address book
    • Application menu (three horizontal lines) - Preferences - General - Config Editor... (at the bottom)
    • ldap_2.autoComplete.skipDirectoryIfLocalMatchFound = false