Connect Kontact/KDEPIM 4.13.x to Office365.com

[O. Sinclair]

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Connect Kontact/KDEPIM 4.13.x to Office365.com

For business reasons I have to use Office365 online Exchange mail as
that is where one of my accounts are now hosted. This is an attempt to
assist others in the same situation, for all I know it could also be
useful for "in house" MS Exchange server hosts.

Scenario: you want to use KDEPIM Kontact 4.13.x - your employer,
customer etc is on cloudbased Office365.com or other exchange server

With the help of a number of postings on KDEForums, Askubuntu.com and
other internet sites I have put this "how-to" together, all credits to
those who I cut and paste from, little credit to me

1. Get mail working. This is fairly easy as Office365 supports both pop3
and IMAP4, in this case I have chosen IMAP4 myself. Instructions for
settings found here:http://tinyurl.com/p7o6bmb
for me this works just fine


2. Get your Office365 calendar and contacts in Kontact. Way more
complicated. The only way I have found is to 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 you start DavMail and configure it. In KDE a "systray"
should pop up where you can put basic settings. In my case I "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 your Calendar working (I have not tried shared calendars, feel
free to experiment):
System Settings =Personal Information => Add=> DAV groupware resource =>
DAVical => user and password - put \yourid at yourdomain.comorgnet 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
\yourname at yourdomain.comorg and your password
then click "Fetch" and your Calendar should show up. Set your 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 \yourid at yourdomain.comorgnet 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
\yourname at yourdomain.comorg and your password
then click "Fetch" and your Contacts should show up. Set your preferred
refesh rate and in Kontacts do not forget to now tick this Address Book
to activate it

5. Finally (at least for me) to access "public address books". They can
be found as LDAP via Kontact/Kaddressbook but it is, mildly put, less
than intuitive
in KMail, open a new mail. In Composer then choose "select" in the
Address area. From there choose "Search Directory Service" and then
click "Configure LDAP servers"
Set this up as "host:localhost", "port:1389", "DN=ou.people",
"authentication:simple"
"Bind DN as \yourid at yourdomain.comorgnet" and password well you should know
next time you compose a new mail you can now "search directory service"
but you will not be able to (to my knowledge) to use it as an
Addressbook. The solution is awkward but works
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