Re: [Evolution] Evolution Mail stopped working

[Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim Tjernlund infinera com>]

On Wed, 2020-12-23 at 14:55 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > The IT-dept got back to me just now, and let me know that they've as a
> > temporary workaround turned of MFA for my mail account - Evolution now works
> > again.
> >
> > The way I think is that since Evolution is the only mail client with proper
> > enterprise capabilities, it'd probably be of interest to many to get it
> > working with the highest security settings available as seen on Outlook at
> > Office365.
> >
> > I'm kinda wondering if there's any work being done on getting Evolution to
> > work with Microsoft's modified variant of OAuth2, as used by Office365
> > online, as it seems it currently dosn't?
> >
> > What is the list's thoughts on this?
>
> Evolution works fine with Office365 and MFA, I have it set up on
> multiple machines.  What sort of MFA are you using - I know hardware
> keys don't work on Linux, but the Microsoft Authenticator app is
> sufficient.

We have recently discovered that initial account configuration needs to use basic auth mode,
once you are done you can switch to MFA. This is not obvious for users.

 Jocke