purdue exchange accounts in thunderbird

I was afraid this wouldn’t work, but it appears to work just fine as long as you treat your Exchange account as a straight IMAP account (with Purdue, at least). These settings worked for me:

  • Server Type: IMAP
  • Server Name: exch.itap.purdue.edu
  • User Name: your shortname
  • Email Address: shortname@exchange.purdue.edu
  • Use secure connection (SSL): checked (port changes to 993)

That’s it!

2 Responses to “purdue exchange accounts in thunderbird”


  1. 1 Tippecanoe Dec 28th, 2004 at 7:05 pm

    I’ve been using this for a while (I’m on DSL via resNet, so the SSL connection isn’t required). About a month ago, I started getting this error:

    The current command did not succeed. The mailserver responded: Unrecoginzed internal error 0×8004050a

    However, the mail is still retrieved and I can read and send mail.

  2. 2 Grateful Purdue Student Oct 5th, 2008 at 8:50 pm

    Thanks for posting this. I was using exchange.purdue.edu for my server and it suddenly stopped working and this fixed it.

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