IMAP email access at SLAC is limited to the internal SLAC network. If you are offsite, you need to connect to VPN to use the IMAP protocol. Alternatively, you can use and configure the Owl plugin for Thunderbird. Owl allows Thunderbird to use the Outlook Web Access (OWA) protocol, which uses Duo two factor authentication. SLAC has a site license for the Owl plugin (for slac.stanford.edu email address).
For more information on the security reasons for restricting IMAP usage:
https://intranet.slac.stanford.edu/news/2019/07/reducing-risk-cyber-attacks-certain-email-protocols
Other ways to read email at SLAC for linux users include:
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/owl-for-exchange/
Open a terminal, install and/or update thunderbird to latest version by running these commands for Ubuntu:
sudo apt update sudo apt install thunderbird sudo apt upgrade thunderbird |
Or these commands for CentOS:
sudo yum clean all sudo yum install thunderbird sudo yum upgrade thunderbird |
In your terminal window, start Thunderbird by typing 'thunderbird' in your terminal window:
thunderbird |
Protocol: Outlook Web Access
Login Method: Detect Automatically
Webmail page: https://outlook.office365.com
http://outlook.com/owa/exchange.slac.stanford.edu
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