Re: [Evolution] exchange online account not showing in evolution

[Harvey Nimmo <harvey nimmo de>]

On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 22:44 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 21:42 +0100, Harvey Nimmo wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 18:28 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > > You use the evolution preferences to set up a new
> > > > account and before exiting the setup you return to the account type
> > > > screen to change the account from IMAP to EWS and then complete the
> > > > sequence.
> > >
> > > No, not at all.  You can set the Server Type to be "Exchange Web
> > > Services" while you are setting the account up.  Why do you think you
> > > need to go back! There is no way that having to do such a thing would
> > > not have had ridicule poured on it, and have been discussed at long
> > > length, here.
> > >
> > > EWS has worked well on Evolution (without having to interact with Gnome
> > > Online Accounts) for a long time.
> > >
> > > P.
> > Believe me, it is like that on my configuration and has been for at
> > least 18 months. Using the Evolution preferences to set up a new
> > account, I give the email address under 'identity' and click 'next' and
> > it jumps directly to the 'account summary' with an imapx / smtp account
> > at some (for me unknown) provider.
>
> That's because autodiscover is finding that information from your ISP.
> If that information is incorrect, then that's a different matter, but
> it's wrong to say that you can only configure an EWS account by going
> back through the settings.
>
> After you have entered the email address and click next, try clicking
> "skip lookup" and you will go to the "Receiving E-mail" page.

I would suggest that 'Skip lookup' is not a very helpful designation. I
for one was not aware that the next thing that happens would be an
automatic search in the internet for the account details. In any case,
clicking next 'skips' the next item in the list and 'skip lookup'
apparently doesn't....hmm

> >  I need to go back to the 'receiving
> > mail' section to change imapx+ to ews and proceed from there. The
> > opportunity to enter 'ews' is not offered before then. But after that,
> > it works. You might suggest that the imapx option would also work,
> > assuming that the lookup finds the right EWS server, but then why would
> > we need the EWS module in Gnome?
>
> Because EWS does a lot more than IMAP when interacting with an Exchange
> server - it does calendar, address book etc. etc.  If you don't use
> those things, and IMAP is available to you (which is not always the case
> for an Exchange server), then it might be that IMAP is a better
> solution.
>
> P.
Yes, now that point is clear. My one reason for switching to evolution
in the first place was the integrated calendar function.

Cheers
Harvey