How to sync PC desktop mail client to an Exchange Activesync server?

Question

I've got a situation where I want to connect to an email server whose only exposed service for mail/calendar is Activesync (it's an Exchange server). The only web interface exposed is "OWA light" which is horrific.

I'd like to figure out a way to synchronize the mail from this Exchange so that it appears in a desktop mail client (or a webmail client if there any that work this way - gmail doesn't support activesync for subscriptions -- it publishes its mail as activesync which is not what I want).

Basically the ascii art of what I want is:

Exchange => Activesync <=> Client application

There are lots of mobile client applications that do this, but I am looking for a desktop or webmail client that can handle activesync as a subscriber (kind of the way IMAP works).

Thanks for any references or ideas!

Steve

Answer 1

Ok - of course 20 seconds after posting this, I find an answer on superuser. Probably where I should have posted to begin with (I swear I googled before posting but apparently not enough).

SU post: http://superuser.com/questions/43238/activesync-owa-desktop-client

Answer: http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

This appears to be a POP3/IMAP and SMTP bridge to activesync which is exactly what I want. If it works as claimed, I can point any mail client to it and it will sync my mail in two directions so I can send messages that will pass through the system and see all the messages that come in.