On Wed, 2020-12-23 at 15:05 +0000, Joakim Tjernlund via evolution-list
wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-12-23 at 14:55 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > 
> > > The IT-dept got back to me just now, and let me know that they've as a
> > > temporary workaround turned of MFA for my mail account - Evolution now 
> > > works
> > > again.
> > > 
> > > The way I think is that since Evolution is the only mail client with 
> > > proper
> > > enterprise capabilities, it'd probably be of interest to many to get it
> > > working with the highest security settings available as seen on Outlook at
> > > Office365.
> > > 
> > > I'm kinda wondering if there's any work being done on getting Evolution to
> > > work with Microsoft's modified variant of OAuth2, as used by Office365
> > > online, as it seems it currently dosn't?
> > > 
> > > What is the list's thoughts on this?
> > > 
> > 
> > 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.

Oh!

I've only used Basic or NTLM authentication previously when I was
reconfigured to use MFA and Evolution stopped working for me.

Shouldn't it have worked for me with MFA then?

Is there any guide or some such I could forward or point to the mail admins
to get MFA working with Office365 and MFA?


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