Re: [Evolution] Using Evolution with Exchange

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 12:14 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > >
> > > You can do Exchange accounts through GoA as well.  I've never
> > > tried
> > > it,
> > > but Exchange is listed in the available account types.
> >
> > Interesting. Is that because Google is supporting it or because the
> > tool is misnamed?
> It's nothing to do with Google - it's 'Gnome on-line Accounts' and
> just
> a way to configure "cloud" based services for use within Gnome.  It's
> not just email either, I have an ownCloud account configured using
> GoA that links in to Nautilus, you can also add Facebook, Flickr,
> Pocket accounts via GoA and all the relevant applications will know
> about them.  You can even add IMAP/SMTP accounts using GoA if that's
> what you really want!

Very good. I'm not a Gnome user (aside from Evo) so I always understood
it to mean Google Online Accounts (perhaps a Freudian slip). Glad to be
disabused of this.

poc