Hi Milan;
Just to let you know, I followed your instructions below and it works
perfectly.Am in
process of peeling pulseaudio out of my system as I write this.I only had it to
satisfy
gnome-control-centre which is no longer needed.
Cheers,john
On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 10:40 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 16:59 +0800, John Edward Serink wrote:
> > We use google mail for our company and I am using evolution 3.27.3.
>
> Hi,
> is it really 3.27.3, the development version?
>
> > Can I administer GOA from inside evolution or is gnome control centre
> > still required?
>
> No and no. You can use evolution(-data-server) without GOA. You can
> compile evolution-data-server with Google authentication support, which
> will allow you to create Google accounts directly from the Evolution
> with all features which GOA offers.
>
> If you really have the development version, then the easiest is to open
> Evolution, then:
> a) in menu Edit->Accounts->Add->Collection Account
> b) Email address: u...@company.com
> c) Advanced Options->Server: gmail.com
> d) click Next, wait for the discovery to finish
> e) click Next again (at the bottom it shows how many "candidates" it
> found)
> f) Left the Collection, Mail Receive and Mail Send at their defaults
> and click Next again
> g) name the account anyhow (defaults to the used email address)
> h) click Finish
>
> Now you'll be asked for credentials and when Google authentication
> support is enabled/compiled you'll see a web login page to Google
> account, like with GOA. Once finished you'll get the account in the
> list and if everything will go that well as on my side, then you'll get
> also all your Calendars, Task lists and the Address book, just like
> with GOA.
>
> Doing the same with the stable version (3.26.x inclusive) is a bit
> tricky. You do:
> a) File->New->Mail Account
> b) set a fake u...@gmail.com address
> c) let it lookup for the settings
> d) once the lookup is done, do not click Finish, but Previous instead
> e) correct all the u...@gmail.com addresses with your u...@company.com
> address (it's on three pages) and make sure "OAuth2 Google"
> authentication type is selected both for mail receive and mail send
> f) check which parts you'd like to have enabled at the last page, aka
> Calendars and Address books and name the account anyhow (this is
> the fourth page with the email address).
> The outcome should be pretty much the same as with the Collection
> Account.
>
> You might verify that you've selected all calendars you want to
> synchronize with CalDAV (thus evolution and other CalDAV clients) at
> https://calendar.google.com/calendar/syncselect
>
> Bye,
> Milan
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