Outlook – Activesync/OWA Desktop Client

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At my company we have Exchange 2k3 with OWA being public, serving up Activesync and webmail. There is no pop3 or imap support from our admins. Outlook 2k3's RPC over HTTP is also disabled

Is there a desktop client that can connect to Activesync or OWA? If my ipod touch can connect to activesync, why can't my pc?
I'd preferably like a linux daemon that could simply forward emails to my gmail address, but I guess I'll take what I can get.

Thanks

EDIT:
In case it was not clear, our Exchange server is hidden completely behind a firewall, and a second exchange server has only activesync and https ports opened to the world.

Best Answer

I think DavMail should be able to solve your problem. To quote from the page

Ever wanted to get rid of Outlook? DavMail is a POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/LDAP exchange gateway allowing users to use any mail/calendar client (e.g. Thunderbird with Lightning or Apple iCal) with an Exchange server, even from the internet or behind a firewall through Outlook Web Access.

It will provide POP/IMAP/SMTP/CalDav/LDAP backends to an Exchange OWA gateway.

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