Re: 3.12 features: better integration with Facebook and Windows Live

[Jim Nelson <jim yorba org>]

A warning about Outlook.com's IMAP support.  It's a bare-boned implementation of IMAP 4 with no support for IDLE or UIDPLUS.  In addition, I discovered (and reported) that the EXPUNGE command will freeze all connections for that account 10s - 15s.  It's not pretty at the moment.

-- Jim

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com> wrote:

On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 14:41 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

Those are the protocols they've *added* to support mobile access, AFAICT. But they *already* supported EWS natively, and that is the protocol they support best.

All evidence I've seen suggests only paid Office 365 accounts support Exchange Web Services, not free Outlook.com accounts. Further, even if Outlook.com had an EWS interface it would also need to support OAuth 2.0 authentication to properly integrate with existing "Windows Live" accounts in GOA. The newly-added IMAP/SMTP interfaces *do* support OAuth 2.0, which allows us to easily tack mail support on to existing "Windows Live" accounts in GOA. If at some point Outlook.com does grow EWS + OAuth 2.0 support, E-D-S could easily switch over. But as far as I know it does not currently support either. Matthew Barnes _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list