Friday, May 4, 2012

Setting up Kmail with IMAP

First of all, IMAP is not supported by the ICT service center, so, be warned. The configuration is pretty standard, and here are some screenshots for Kmail. I followed the guidelines for setting up IMAP with outlook, and it basically boils down to the following:

  • imap.maastrichtuniversity.nl
  • SSL (port 993)
  • account: firstname.lastname@unimaas.nl
  • passward: the same as for webmail
The main difference with the main documentation is that only the unimaas.nl domain works for me (the screenshot was taken before I figured that out):


This is what the Security tabs looks like for me:


Sending email is not supported, so find yourself a local SMTP server. (Though I will try next week if the UM SMTP server works from within the UM network... or perhaps via VPN?)

Of course, you can use the UM SMTP server when sending from within the university. Kmail supports multiple mail transports, and I have both GMail and UM configured. Now, if I only knew how to get Kmail to select a transport based on the current IP...

2 comments:

  1. Wow, amazing! Thanks for finally coming up with something for Linux. However, in my opinion it is rather useless to use mail only with a vpn. I want to have the full exchange experience. It is possible to have it on my Android phone why not for a desktop operating system? I am using Ubuntu 12.04 as my main system with evolution/MAPI plugin. It's just not working. I hope there are more Linux people getting to gether and putting some pressure on the ICT Service ;)

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  2. You can use smtp.maastrichtuniversity.nl without additional security or authentication if you're connected via VPN. Make sure you set the port number to 25.

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