[Evolution] [Solved] Re: OAuth

[Laverne Schrock <lists-laverne schrock email>]

On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 11:06 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 21:24 -0500, Laverne Schrock wrote:
> > I'm running Evolution 3.12.9 on Debian Sid. Does this version support
> > OAuth? I have a Google Apps account that has the settings locked 
> > down.
>
>         Hi,
> Evolution doesn't "support" OAuth(2) directly, but indirectly it does.
> By "directly" I mean that it might offer a login page and ask for the
> tokens on its own.
>
> The indirect way is to configure your Google account in GNOME Online
> Accounts, which Evolution will recognize and will add the related
> (enabled) parts in its UI. 
> There were done some bug fixes for more
> recent versions, like for the upcoming evolution-data-server 3.16.3
> bug [1]. The current development version even discovers available
> Google calendars and adds them all to the Evolution, instead of only
> the default user calendar.
>         Bye,
>         Milan
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728496

The email that I was trying to get working is a university email. It
turns out that I *am* able to turn on the Desktop Client password; I
just had to use the university's interface instead of Google's. So
things are working fine now. I'll have to take a look into GNOME Online
Accounts sometime b/c that sounds pretty cool.

Cheers,
Laverne