Re: [Evolution] EWS support for Office365 Azure MFA?

[PJ Waskiewicz <pjwaskiewicz gmail com>]

Hi Milan,

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-12-05 at 16:44 -0700, PJ Waskiewicz wrote:
> > It looks like EWS on Office365 supports Oauth:
> > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn903761(v=exchg.150).aspx
>
>         Hi,
> there seem to be more and more services switching to/using OAuth(2),
> being it for example Yahoo!, Google and now also Office365. The only
> OAuth2 implementation directly in the evolution is for Google
> currently. GNOME Online Accounts can do more, but I do not think they
> support it for EWS (I do not know for sure). There would still be
> required other changes on the evolution-ews side, to advertise proper
> authentication method in the headers when talking to the server.
>
> It's still doable, the Google OAuth2 implementation is the proof, but
> it looks harder for the Office365. I didn't read the links you gave
> thoroughly, thus it needs more investigation. One thing is that I do
> not have any test account on the Office365, neither with the two-factor
> authentication enabled, thus it's even harder to do anything with it.

If I were able to secure you a test account with two-factor enabled,
would that help?  I'm not saying I can (I need to beg my IT
overlords), but they are motivated to help our Linux user base, so I
might have enough leverage to make it happen.

> We can start with a bug filling at:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=evolution-ews&version=3.23.x&short_desc=Support%20OAuth%20authentication
> but more coordination would be required to move it anywhere close
> to the resolution.

Thank you for the reply and interest, and opening the bug to track
this.  I'll see if I can get you access to an environment that would
enable development and testing, if you think it'd be useful.

Cheers,
-PJ