Davmail - Use your favorite client mail with MS Exchange

Many companies are using MS Exchange as mail server, with it's client MS Outlook. And when you are in heterogeneous operating system environment or when you're not fan of Outlook, it become difficult to connect another mail client like Thunderbird on MS Exchange's proprietary protocols like Webdav and OWA.
Fortunately, it exist a Libre Software called DavMail, that I use since 2 years with Thunderbird at work.

The main features can be seen on the picture below (source: DavMail website):

Davmail can be run as server or local mode; we will use the local mode configuration, with the latest version 4.7.0 and the email client Thunderbird.

Installation
Prerequisite: Java (jre)
-Download davmail package for Linux installation:
$ wget -O /tmp/davmail.tar.gz http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/davmail/davmail/4.7.0/davmail-linux-x86_64-4.7.0-2408.tgz?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fdavmail%2Ffiles%2Fdavmail%2F4.7.0%2F&ts=1447659863&use_mirror=liquidtelecom

-Extract the package:
$ tar xzvpf /tmp/davmail.tar.gz -C /opt

-Create a link, to facilitate upgrade:
$ ln -sf /opt/davmail-linux-x86_64-4.7.0-2408 /opt/davmail

-Launch davmail:
$ nohup /opt/davmail/davmail.sh &  #You can automate this

- Configure davmail to act as gateway for your Exchange server:

-Configure Thunderbird:
File > New > Existing email account

Click on "Manual config" button

 -Accept to not use encryption, for local configuration It's not an issue because of the local communication between Thunderbird and DavMail

Configure automatic launching

$gnome-session-properties

It's all folk!!!

You can also configure calendar, directory (address book) and more; go the davmail's documentations  website: http://davmail.sourceforge.net/