Connecting Outlook to a Kolab server via ActiveSync – Kolab Knowledgebase

This articles guides you through the setup of an Exchange ActiveSync account hosted on a Kolab server, using Outlook 2016. Regrettably, Outlook 2016 does not support automatic discovery for accounts that use ActiveSync — please bugger Microsoft about that lack of support.

First step is, to make sure that Outlook is EAS enabled by following this kb article about this topic in this same knowledge base.

Click the Start button and type in control panel in the bottom search line. This opens the Control Panel

Select User Accounts

Select Mail (Microsoft Outlook)

..and Email accounts..

Press New to create a new internal Outlook account

Select Manual setup

..and Exchange ActiveSync

Fill in the account data for the Kolab email account

Outlook is now connecting to the Kolab server and verifying the account data. All that’s left is to close the windows and..

..open Outlook and check that the account is available and synchronized as expected.

Configuring the synchronization interval

Outlook does not listen for push notifications over ActiveSync, so it is important to schedule regular synchronization attempts to receive new email.

This can be configured via File -> Send/Receive Groups -> Define Send/Receive Groups.

Check the box “Schedule an automatic send/receive every 5min”, to receive mail no later than 5 minutes than they arrive on the server.

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