On Wed, 2026-06-03 at 09:26 -0500, M L via users wrote: > Hi, > > I am asking this question here because of the sheer breadth and depth > of knowledge on this mailing list. > > My mail so far has been handled by mutt (sylpheed/claws-mail in the > middle), both of which I like and am comfortable with, having used > one of them ever since I started using linux in the nineties (I > remember using floppy disks and then CDs to install -- what a breeze > it is today). So I have a large email corpus stored in Maildir++ > folders (mutt handles these with ease, therefore I switched back > despite claws-mail/sylpheed's superb search abilities which is mutt's > weakness in my view). > > However, my university IT decided to move to MS 365 with OAUTH2 > authentication and force everybody to it. However, they appear to > allow evolution (whether this is by omission or someone among their > large army still uses it, we will likely eventually find out) and I > am able to use it to get the tokens that make it possible to access > and refresh from the gnome keyring -- this happens under the hood. > > The IT folks have managed to scare the administrators enough about > the pitfalls of registering any (perhaps no more than five out of > perhaps 50 users campus-wide) apps in entra ID , even though the > evolution settings do not appear to be unversity-specific. They only > communicate to me through them (using chatGPT-generated buzzwords) so > all my technical arguments and proposed suggestions and alternatives > are lost. > > Personally, I find evolution a bit too feature-rich for my needs, and > even somewhat tedious (being old school, I like looking under the > hood and so I prefer settings where I can edit a plain-text > configuration file). > > Now, I understand that mutt has mutt_oauth2.py has very detailed > descriptions of what and how to go about getting these tokens but > they do not work for me. (Not being very knowledgeable about this, I > wonder if it is because the default setting in evolution is: > https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/nativeclient and all > approaches described appear to use the browser.) > > Anyway, my question is if it is at all possible to access these > evolution tokens in the keyring for use with > mutt/neomutt/sylpheed/claws-mail/getmail6/fetchmail/whatever and use > them. So, if something like this were possible, I would still run > evolution once in a while to get new tokens issued, but use these > other receiving and sending email agents. > > Any other option I could try? I have spent over three weeks on this, > but have not been able to land a solution. (Of course, it is so > unnecessary given the plethora of easy options apparently generally > available.)
There's a current thread on the Evolution mailing list that talks about this or something like it. See: https://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/evolution-users/2026-June/thread.html poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
