Re: [Evolution] EWS Shared Mailboxes

["Rob Hall (DM)" <rob nqgis com>]

On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 12:08 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> 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

Many thanks. I've now managed to add the folder required. Obtaining the
ID was more troublesome than I'd hoped as neither Outlook or OWA
seem to show it.

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