Re: [Evolution] Evolution Mail stopped working

[Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim Tjernlund infinera com>]

On Wed, 2020-12-23 at 15:25 +0000, Joakim Tjernlund via evolution-list wrote:
> 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

So now my company turned off Basic auth for normal users and only allow O365 OAuth.
This mean we cannot create new Evo accounts, I cannot recall where I read that this is
a limitation. Would be great if Milan could refresh me :)

Also, I guess this will be fairly frequent going forward, is there a solution on the horizon?

 Jocke