Re: [Evolution] 2 exchange accounts

[William Dossett <bill dossett outlook com>]

Thanks Milan, installing the ews plug-in did the trick, it all started
working.  Not sure where I read that ews was not needed except for
exchange 2007 and before, but that was where I went wrong.

Thanks again
Bill


On Mon, 2020-01-06 at 13:41 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-01-04 at 05:08 +0000, William Dossett via evolution-list
> wrote:
> > I don't have the ews plugin installed as it seemed to say that was
> > only for older versions of exchange, if I read right... and it
> > seems to be working fine without it on my outlook.com exchange
> > account.
>
>       Hi,
> you should have installed evolution-ews package (I'm not sure what
> the
> name is in your distro) to have Exchange accounts configured in the
> GNOME Online Accounts (GOA) added in Evolution automaticallty. If you
> do not see "Exchange Web Services" in the Server type combo when
> creating a new account, then you surely do not have it installed. I'm
> not sure from the above, but if I understood it correctly you added
> the
> account both in GOA and in Evolution itself. That should not be done,
> if you had installed evolution-ews (still supposing the account type
> in
> GOA was 'Exchange'). When creating an account in Evolution, you may
> not
> left checked "Look up email settings..." in the wizard, because EWS
> requires authentication and this lookup generally (and usually) means
> IMAP+SMTP, not EWS.
>
> > I read an older post saying the user restarted mint and then the
> > account showed up, but now luck either.  I assume it will support 2
> > accounts?
>
> Yes, definitely, you can have as many configured EWS accounts as you
> wish and you can use them all at the same time.
>       Bye,
>       Milan
>
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