Re: [Evolution] EWS Shared Mailboxes

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 09:45 +0000, Rob Hall (DM) wrote:
> In an EWS based account I can add a shared mail box but only seem to 
> have access to a limited subset of the available folders (Inbox, 
> Contacts, Calendar, Memos and Tasks). If I edit the text field of 
> the drop down to the folder I want, rather than the ones in the 
> dropdown list, and click OK I get "Id is malformed".

        Hi,
you can either use those predefined names, or provide a folder ID. The 
ID itself depends on the server and it looks like a base64 encoded 
value. You can see it in folder's Permission dialog (in the context 
menu of an EWS folder or source (calendar/book/...)).

The idea is that the user whom shares the folder copies the ID from 
the Permissions dialog and gives it to you. You then paste it into the 
folder name and it will just work.

This is similar to Outlook, which allows to add only the predefined 
folder names. The other folders are handled through share invitation 
emails (I do not recall precisely how they call those mails), but 
evolution-ews currently doesn't understand them, thus there is this 
folder ID way of doing the same, even in a slightly less user friendly 
way.
        Bye,
        Milan