Re: [Evolution] Evolution Mail stopped working

[Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim Tjernlund infinera com>]

On Wed, 2020-12-23 at 15:13 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > >
> > >
> > > 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.
> Interesting. So you can't setup an O365 account with MFA turned on in
> Evolution?  Is there a bug filed against that? (Because it is surely a
> bug somewhere along the line.)
>
> I'm interested in this because my organisation is big and lumbers along
> - trying to get them to do fine-tuning changes such as that for
> individuals is almost impossible. Having some bug reference to throw at
> them will help.

No bug, I think I read on some Evolution/GNOME www page that that is how it works w.r.t EWS/MFA

 Jocke