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thonixx
Asked: 2012-03-03 15:35:22 +0800 CST

Evolution and Office 365

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In Evolution Mail there is an option to create an account for Exchange with an OWA address. Does someone have an idea how to get the required data from Office 365 to get working in Evolution? Microsoft support did not help and refused my help request because of the word Ubuntu in the post ;)

The OWA url is https://amsprd0302.outlook.com/owa but I do not know what username and mailbox name to use.

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  1. It is very rough at this point, but the evolution-ews plugin partially works with MS 365. It should be available in the same repo you use to get evolution-mapi. This isn't a 100% solution, but it (for me) is better than the DavMail solution or using WINE/VM/Firefox.

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  2. Edit your account. (edit>preferences>select your account>edit)

    Go to "Recieving Email"

    Your username is your full email address, e.g. [email protected]

    Your host URL is https://outlook.office365.com

    Once you've entered those 2 bits, click "Fetch URL". It will prompt you for your password, then populate the required fields for connectivity.

    Done.

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  3. If you use https://m.outlook.com and click the "Fetch URL" button the rest of the fields should auto populate. This is working on evolution 3.8.x

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  4. I did some research. It appears as if Evolution only supports Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 via OWA. To use Evolution with Exchange 2007, one must use the MAPI protocol, which I don't believe is available on Office 365.

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  5. For outlook.com I could connect Evolution 3.20.5 with these settings:

    Host URL: https://outlook.live.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx

    OAB URL: https://outlook.live.com/OAB

    No "Fetch URL" was needed.

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  6. i think the username and password are

    username = your email address eg [email protected]

    and password is your email password

    usually if you are using office365 it will be the same creditials you use to log in

    i think..

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  7. Your URL is https://amsprd0302.outlook.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx. Beware, service is spotty. Hopefully this package will be updated to support Office 365 better.

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  8. Try in Thunderbird and copy over the details. Thunderbird auto-finds the login details so if it gets it right you can just copy to Evolution.

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  9. I got things working on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.2 using https://outlook.office365.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx as the host url and fetching with my email and password.

    Source: https://kb.wisc.edu/office365/page.php?id=28462

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  10. I had a working connection before office365, when the company changed to office365 I had this issue. My connection worked with https://outlook.office365.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx. But most important, before the change I only had to provide the username, so by playing with changing stuff I tried providing [email protected] in the Username field and it all started working.

    HTH

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