Hi, I have done as much research on this question as I can, and am hoping that others can please help further.
Gnome/Ubunto sees my work Office 365 account as a "Microsoft Exchange account", so Evolution uses the GOA:ews service. I am not entirely sure as to why it knows to use ews, but it was a good call and works great. Mail, contacts, task and calendar all sync correctly - love it! (It does amuse me that this manages to bypass the Microsoft 2FA that my work activated for everyone a year ago, and I only need to use the Microsoft authenticator app when running Outlook on Windows/Mac or Outlook on an iPhone/iPad. Accessing my work outlook email on my Android device running Blackberry Hub, or Evolution on Ubunto both seem to bypass the Microsoft 2FA! ) I have a personal email address that is an outlook.com account, but Gnome/Ubunto sees this account as a "Microsoft account". As a consequence, Evolution uses GOA:Outlook and imapx+smtp. This is limiting, as Evolution is able to do email brilliantly, but it can not see my personal Outlook account contacts, calendar or tasks. I can get to my Outlook contacts, calendar and tasks with no problem on my Android mobile (Blackberry KEY2 running Blackberry apps), and of course the online version of Outlook can access all these options fine too. It looks like only Outlook for Windows/Mac, or any mobile device - is the only way to get access to Outlook Mail/Calendar/Contacts and Tasks. I think I have read that mobile devices can use Microsoft exchange activesync without a licence, and EAS is a required "protocol" to get to the Calendar/Tasks/Contacts. Desktop mail clients need to get the Microsoft licence if they are going to do more than mail, and nobody does this other than Microsoft? So, I was surprised and thrilled when Evolution was able to do everything I wanted with my Work Office365 account - but why can't it do the same with my personal Outlook account as well? I have been looking for a way to force Gnome/Ubunto to re-evaluate my Outlook account to be treated as a Microsoft Exchange account, rather than just a Microsoft account - but with no joy. When I explore the mail server settings in my Android device, both my work and personal email accounts use the same server address of outlook.office365.com ... so if my mobile can use Outlook contacts/calendar just like my work account, then why can't I get Gnome/Ubunto/Evolution to also do the same? Hope I haven't bored anyone to death with this long post! :) Thanks, Antony. -- Sent from: http://gnome-evolution-general.1774414.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
