DAVMAIL(1)

📦 version 6.8.1.4210, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 DAVMAIL(1) — the girlies' guide to the Exchange Gateway 💖

General Commands Manual ✨ davmail ✨

okay bestie, sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, because we're about to talk about davmail — the POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway. yes that's a lot of slashes. she's versatile. she contains multitudes. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

davmail — POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

davmail [-notray] [CONFIG_FILE_PATH]

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. two things and she's off. 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so this manual page documents the davmail command briefly — like, the sparknotes version, the trailer, the "she's a 10 but she has no manual page" situation.

what does davmail actually do tho? she creates a gateway — and the way that she does this is genuinely iconic — making the Microsoft Exchange mail, contacts and calendar protocol available in standard protocols such as POP, IMAP, CalDAV, SMTP and LDAP. 🔥

so Exchange is being all proprietary and mysterious in the corner, and davmail walks in like "not on my watch, bestie" and translates the whole thing into the normal protocols your regular mail client already speaks. main character energy fr fr. 👑

💜 heads up: this manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. not me filling in the gaps. not me being the responsible one. 😭

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

so davmail can take the path of the configuration file on the command line. that's the CONFIG_FILE_PATH situation.

the configuration file syntax is described deeply on the davmail website — like, deeply deeply. go read it if you want the full lore. 📖✨

davmail accepts the following options:

  • -notray — Do not create a system tray icon. bye bye little tray buddy. 🙈
⚠️ important, bestie, read this twice: note that even when passing -notray davmail will still show a graphical user interface. the tray icon is gone but the GUI is very much still there, living her life, showing up uninvited. 💀 to run davmail without a GUI, set the "davmail.server" to "true" in the configuration file, or use the following option:
  • -server — Run in server mode (no GUI). just pure server. no window, no nonsense, no distractions. clean girl aesthetic. ✨

🧚 FILES 🧚

  • $HOME/.davmail.properties — The user configuration file. if it exists, this will be loaded when the CONFIG_FILE_PATH argument is not passed on the command line. she's the backup plan, the understudy, the girl who steps in when nobody else shows up. 🫶
  • /etc/davmail.properties — The system wide configuration file. the big sister config. the one that applies to everybody. 🌈
  • /etc/default/davmail — System wide initscript behaviour handling. yes she handles the behaviour. she's the behaviour handler. 💅

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

go touch some grass, then come back and read the docs:

🥺 and that's the whole page bestie. iykyk.

this page is from October 2016, and yeah, it's DAVMAIL(1) — that's the manual section, one, for the command-line girlies. 💖

stay slay, read your man pages, and never pass -notray thinking you escaped the GUI. periodt. 💅✨🎀

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