Re: [Evolution] Not able to send mail using EWS?

[Bjørn T Johansen <btj havleik no>]

On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 00:30:54 +0000
Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 23:21 +0100, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> > Ok, seem to have found the reason for this... Not sure why buy here it goes..:
> >
> > When I send a new mail, SMTP is not used, it seems...
> > But when I a reply to an email, Evolution uses SMTP and tries to connect to the Exchange server on port 
> > 465, which is not an open port at work.
> >
> > Why is this treated differently? Any way around this?
>
> Are you sure you are using your EWS Evolution account to send the
> emails?  i.e. is the correct thing in the "From:" line at the top of the
> email you are composing.  You could also try setting the account to be
> the default, that will ensure it is the one used to compose new emails.
>
> P.

You are absolutely correct... I have added an "alias" for my Exchange account, as account type None, and that 
was the account that was selected when
I replied... :-S

Is there a way to add such an alias and still use EWS to send the email?


BTJ