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
  • The settings will be found automatically. If not see #mail-settings
• 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 be able to access a calendar in another mailbox, you need

• at least read permission (corresponds to ‘All details’ in Outlook/OWA) for this.
• the ‘Folder visible’ right at the top level of the mailbox.
• read permissions for the complete path, i.e. to all higher-level folders (except the top level, see above)

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

• Application menu (three horizontal lines) - New - Calendar
• Location of the calendar: on the network
  
• Next
• Enter the following data:
  • Username: <ab1234>@kit.edu as an employee
    (Students: <uxxxx>@student.kit.edu; guests and partners: <ab1234>@partner.kit.edu).
  • Address (for the default calendar): https://caldav.scc.kit.edu/users/<sender-email-address>/calendar

    Employees	https://caldav.scc.kit.edu/users/firstname lastname∂kit edu/calendar
    Functional mailbox	https://caldav.scc.kit.edu/users/name∂oe kit edu/calendar
    Guests and partners	https://caldav.scc.kit.edu/users/firstname lastname∂partner kit edu/calendar
    Students pseudomized	https://caldav.scc.kit.edu/users/uabcd∂student kit edu/calendar
    Students depseudomized	https://caldav.scc.kit.edu/users/firstname lastname∂student kit edu/calendar

  • Offline support: yes
    
  • Find calendars
  • Enter the password associated with the username (see above).
    
  • Calendar type: CalDAV
    • If you have multiple calendars, select the calendars you want.
      
    • Properties
      • Enter the following data:
      • Calendar Name: you can choose the name freely
      • Color: you can choose the color freely
      • Show reminders: optional
      • Email: optional. Required for sending and receiving meeting requests. Choose your IMAP account for your calendar.
        
  • OK
  • Subscribe

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

Calendar outside of default calendar

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

• Username: <ab1234 ∂does-not-exist.kit edu as an employee
  (Students: <uxxxx>@student.kit.edu; guests and partners: <ab1234>@partner.kit.edu).

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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