support for Office365?

[Andrew D. Arenson]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 01:45:01PM -0400, Andrew D. Arenson wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 07:49:14AM +0100, isdtor wrote:
> 
> > Andrew D. Arenson writes:
> > > 	My organization is moving to Office365 and have decided, sadly, not to support IMAP.
> > > 
> > > 	Anyone have insight in how mutt might still be able to connect to Office365?
> > > 
> > > 	A co-worker has been investigating a project called davmail, which provides a gateway that sort of translates from Office365's other protocols to IMAP, as they use a (non-mutt) IMAP mail client.
> > 
> > I was never able to get davmail to work in the past but now, preparing for a potential future like yours, I looked at it again and did get it to work. I tested it in conjunction with fetchmail and ran into two problems. One I was able to work around, the other not, but most importantly, the setup seems to download mails ok.
> > 
> > That's for imaps access only. I don't need pop and haven't tested smtp or caldav and ldap.
> > 
> 
> 	Well, I got word today that my work inbox is being migrated by the 29th of this month from local Exchange to Office365, so can't put this off any longer.
> 
> 	I don't need caldav or ldap. Not sure if I'll need smtp in the future, but I don't need it immediately.
> 
> 	I'm not familiar with fetchmail. Would you mind saying more about how you use fetchmail and what you did to get davmail to work?
> 
> 	I'm using a very old version of mutt, the latest available on RHEL6: Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-12-10)
> 
> 	My current .muttrc IMAP config:
> 
> set imap_pass="*************"
> set spoolfile="{aarenson at imap.exchange.iu.edu/ssl}INBOX"
> mailboxes !
> mailboxes "{aarenson at imap.exchange.iu.edu/ssl}Junk E-mail"
> set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates
> set ssl_starttls=yes
> set ssl_force_tls=yes
> set imap_keepalive = 10
> 
>     	I don't really know what I'm doing with mutt. I've cobbled
> things together over the years and they mostly work well enough. Just
> trying to figure out how to keep it going.


  	 I'm happy to report that I got this to work. Changes:

58c58,59
< set spoolfile="{aarenson at imap.exchange.iu.edu/ssl}INBOX"
---
> set spoolfile="{aarenson\@iu.edu at localhost:1143}INBOX"
139,141c140,142
< set ssl_starttls=yes
< set ssl_force_tls=yes
< set imap_keepalive = 10
---
> #set ssl_starttls=yes
> #set ssl_force_tls=yes
> #set imap_keepalive = 10


          I'm sorry that I can't easily report what was needed in the davmail.properties file, as I simply borrowed one from a co-worker who had already set up davmail for use with Thunderbird.


Andy


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