By Anamarija Pogorelec
Publication Date: 2026-09-22 03:48:00
Anyone who wants to leave Outlook but still has a mailbox on Exchange needs a translator. DavMail is one: a Java gateway that converts the open protocols most mail, calendar and contact apps speak (IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV and LDAP) into requests Exchange and Office 365 accept. “Ever wanted to get rid of Outlook?” the project page asks.
DavMail 7.0.0 removes the davmail.caldavImpersonate option, turns on a new sync method by default, requests an extra Microsoft permission, and forces a fresh sign-in after switching from EWS to Graph. EWS, or Exchange Web Services, is Microsoft’s older mailbox interface. Graph is the newer API, and this release concentrates on it.
Most of the work went into Graph
Seventy changelog entries carry the Graph label, against 18 for EWS. EWS still got attention: the older backend received reworked handling of attendees, organizers, shared calendars and exception occurrences, the single changed instances of a recurring meeting.
The…
