[Evolution] offline mode with EWS and some sync issues/conflicts

[Antony Steele <antony c steele gmail com>]

Hi,

I am running Evolution 3.40.0 on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS installed through flatpack.

I am using EWS to access my work Office365 email, and it seems to work great and I have over  50,000 or messages. My colleagues can't tell that I have (mostly) left Outlook!

Work have turned on 2FA using the Microsoft authenticator app - but I only have to respond to those requests when actually running Outlook on Windows - Evolution on Ubuntu seems to bypass the 2FA. 

I have noticed that there are 240 Sync Issues shown in the Conflicts folder.

Is there a way to re-try or resolve these?

The number doesn't seem to be changing at all, and the messages span what appears to be over a wide and random time period, from the year 2016 when my O365 mailbox was created through to last week and messages from various folders too. I did run out of disk space for a short time recently, which may not have helped!

Not sure if this is at all related, but I have noticed that offline mode doesn't work in all folders.

I have ensured that  every folder is ticked for "Copy folder content locally for offline operation" but it doesn't do that for every email. If I test it when offline, then some messages open - and some others within the same folder report that they are not available offline.

I can't see how to force a re-sync or where it thinks it is up to. 

thanks,

Antony.