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EWS connection with Zimbra

clement17 replied
clement17

Hi

I have set up Thunderbird with a Zimbra mail serveur (Zimbra serveur 10.1.10_GA_4785) using the EWS new feature of Thunderbird.

I can setup the EWS account. The test of the secured connection to the server is returned valid. But in the mailbox, the list of folder is empty, and I see no email. Interestingly, I can successfully send email from this thunderbird using the exchange server as sending server.

To resume, no emails are received, but sending emails works.

So, I check the request to the exchange server when starting a synchronization : Here the result : Request : <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types"><soap:Header><t:RequestServerVersion Version="Exchange2010_SP2"/></soap:Header><soap:Body><GetFolder xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages"><FolderShape><t:BaseShape>IdOnly</t:BaseShape></FolderShape><FolderIds><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="msgfolderroot"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="inbox"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="deleteditems"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="drafts"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="outbox"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="sentitems"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="junkemail"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="archive"/></FolderIds></GetFolder></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

Response <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Header><ns2:ServerVersionInfo xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" MajorVersion="14" MinorVersion="3" MajorBuildNumber="158" MinorBuildNumber="11" Version="Exchange2010_SP2"/></soap:Header><soap:Body><GetFolderResponse xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages"><ResponseMessages><GetFolderResponseMessage ResponseClass="Error"><MessageText>Cannot invoke "com.microsoft.schemas.exchange.services._2006.types.DistinguishedFolderIdNameType.value()" because the return value of "com.microsoft.schemas.exchange.services._2006.types.DistinguishedFolderIdType.getId()" is null</MessageText></GetFolderResponseMessage></ResponseMessages></GetFolderResponse></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

The parameters ( domain replaced by *** for privacy) mail.ews.server_versions : {"https://zimbra.*******.com/ews/Exchange.asmx":"Exchange2010_SP2"} mail.outgoingserver.ews1.auth_method : 3 mail.outgoingserver.ews1.ews_url : https://zimbra.*******.com/ews/Exchange.asmx mail.outgoingserver.ews1.key : ews1 mail.root.ews-rel : [ProfD]Mail mail.server.server4.ews_url : https://zimbra.******.com/ews/Exchange.asmx mail.smtpserver.ews1.type : ews

Anyone successfully used the new EWS feature with Zimbra server ?

PS : I confirm the EWS connection with the Zimbra serveur by successfully using EWS on Outlook for android.

Hi I have set up Thunderbird with a Zimbra mail serveur (Zimbra serveur 10.1.10_GA_4785) using the EWS new feature of Thunderbird. I can setup the EWS account. The test of the secured connection to the server is returned valid. But in the mailbox, the list of folder is empty, and I see no email. Interestingly, I can successfully send email from this thunderbird using the exchange server as sending server. To resume, no emails are received, but sending emails works. So, I check the request to the exchange server when starting a synchronization : Here the result : Request : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types"><soap:Header><t:RequestServerVersion Version="Exchange2010_SP2"/></soap:Header><soap:Body><GetFolder xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages"><FolderShape><t:BaseShape>IdOnly</t:BaseShape></FolderShape><FolderIds><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="msgfolderroot"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="inbox"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="deleteditems"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="drafts"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="outbox"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="sentitems"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="junkemail"/><t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="archive"/></FolderIds></GetFolder></soap:Body></soap:Envelope> Response <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Header><ns2:ServerVersionInfo xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" MajorVersion="14" MinorVersion="3" MajorBuildNumber="158" MinorBuildNumber="11" Version="Exchange2010_SP2"/></soap:Header><soap:Body><GetFolderResponse xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages"><ResponseMessages><GetFolderResponseMessage ResponseClass="Error"><MessageText>Cannot invoke "com.microsoft.schemas.exchange.services._2006.types.DistinguishedFolderIdNameType.value()" because the return value of "com.microsoft.schemas.exchange.services._2006.types.DistinguishedFolderIdType.getId()" is null</MessageText></GetFolderResponseMessage></ResponseMessages></GetFolderResponse></soap:Body></soap:Envelope> The parameters ( domain replaced by *** for privacy) mail.ews.server_versions : {"https://zimbra.*******.com/ews/Exchange.asmx":"Exchange2010_SP2"} mail.outgoingserver.ews1.auth_method : 3 mail.outgoingserver.ews1.ews_url : https://zimbra.*******.com/ews/Exchange.asmx mail.outgoingserver.ews1.key : ews1 mail.root.ews-rel : [ProfD]Mail mail.server.server4.ews_url : https://zimbra.******.com/ews/Exchange.asmx mail.smtpserver.ews1.type : ews Anyone successfully used the new EWS feature with Zimbra server ? PS : I confirm the EWS connection with the Zimbra serveur by successfully using EWS on Outlook for android.

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Are you still seeing this problem with a newer version?

Unfortunately, yes, the issue is still present with 152.0.1 Did you have any idea of what I could test to find the source of the issue ? Could it be a config issue ? or should I fill a bug ticket ?

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