Re: [Evolution] Options for automatically setting up accounts / preseeding / autoconfig?

[Jason Alavaliant <alavaliant ra09 com>]

Thank you,  that was exactly what I was looking for.



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On Thursday, November 28, 2019 11:44 PM, Milan Crha via evolution-list <evolution-list gnome org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2019-11-27 at 19:04 +0000, Jason Alavaliant wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for options like Thunderbirds autoconfig
>
> Hi,
> Evolution supports that [1], but it reads only POP3, IMAP and SMTP
> information from it. I'm afraid Thunderbird does not support EWS
> (Exchange Web Services) in the autoconfig. Evolution could use some
> extended format for it, unless it would break Thunderbird.
>
> > Does such a feature exist for evolution?
>
> Some admin-controlled autosetup is possible. It's described here [2].
> There is no better description for it. Maybe look here [3].
>
> Long story short: you configure desired account on one machine. Then
> you get relevant files for it at ~/.config/evolution/sources/ and copy
> them out. You tag them with a revision and replace things like user
> names and email addresses with variables. Then you distribute these
> files on user machines (or better on some common place and you only set
> a path where to look for them on those user machines). That way,
> whenever the revision of the file changes, it is updated.
>
> With respect of OAuth2, users will be asked to log in the first time
> they open Evolution. You can use some 3rd-party mechanisms to prefill
> the credentials into Seahorse (or libsecret, for what it worth), but
> it's tricky and I'd not do that. Better let the user log in on their
> own.
> Bye,
> Milan
>
> [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/issues/39
> [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773156 (with its Blocks bugs)
> [3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-ews/issues/53#note_621208
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