UWaterloo Email - DavMail

DavMail is a tool that can be used to bridge Microsoft email accounts (such as UWaterloo.ca email) to IMAP, enabling the user to use third-party email clients.

Step-by-step

Install DavMail

On Arch: DavMail is available through the AUR.

On Debian: sudo apt install davmail

From Flathub: flatpak install flathub org.davmail.DavMail

On Linux: See http://davmail.sourceforge.net/linuxsetup.html

On macOS: See http://davmail.sourceforge.net/macosxsetup.html

On Windows: See http://davmail.sourceforge.net/windowssetup.html

Set up your email client with DavMail

You should be able to use any email client that supports IMAP. This guide assumes that you're running your email client on the same device as DavMail. (Note: This guide uses Thunderbird as an example, but DavMail is not necessary for using Thunderbird with UWaterloo emails. See UWaterlooEmailThunderbird for using Thunderbird directly.)

When you first run DavMail, it will launch a menu allowing you to configure the gateway.

Change the Exchange Protocol to O365Interactive. This will enable you to authenticate with 2FA. Save this change.

Now, open your email client and set up your email account. Fill in your information, using your @uwaterloo.ca email address.

You will need to manually configure the server details with something like the following:

Incoming server:

• Protocol: IMAP
• Hostname: localhost
• Port: 1143
• Connection security: None
• Authentication method: Normal password

Outgoing server:

• Hostname: localhost
• Port: 1025
• Connection security: None
• Authentication method: Normal password

Attempt to log in. Your email client may complain that you're making an unencrypted connection. This is fine because you're just connecting on localhost (i.e., not sending data over a network). If you're running DavMail on a server, make sure to change this setup accordingly.

DavMail will now open a dialog asking the user to authenticate with Office. Click the link to open it in your browser.

This will open a UWaterloo login page. Sign in as usual.

Complete the Duo 2FA.

If this is your first time connecting DavMail to your account, Microsoft will ask if you want to grant permission for it to act as a third-party app. Accept this request.

You will be redirected to a blank page. Copy the URL from your URL bar. It contains the OAuth2 code needed for DavMail to authenticate.

Paste this URL into the DavMail window and click OK.

Go back to your email client and try again to log in. This time, you should log in successfully!

Links

• Felix Engelmann - DavMail Office365 Bridge (may be a useful reference if you want to set up DavMail to run headless as a service for other devices like your phone)