[ubuntu-uk] Problem with Mail set up in Ubuntu 13.10

[John Oliver]

Well regrettably the only thing I know of to connect to Exchange using 
thunderbird is ExQuilla which is not free. I think Evolution does/used 
to connect directly to EWS though - but it isn't my email application of 
choice.

On 27/01/14 17:54, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> Spot on!
> Unfortunately it now appears that the Exchange EWS add-in (to sync 
> Contacts, Calendar and Tasks) doesn't work with that server, and 
> neither does it work with the "correct" server either, so it's on to 
> Plan B.
> Change my Exchange  Server account to a plain IMAP account, and 
> useFruux <https://fruux.com/> to sync Contacts, calendar and Tasks.
> (Besides which, it's much cheaper than Office 365 and Open Source!)
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> On 27/01/2014 17:11, John Oliver wrote:
>> Try using m.outlook.com as the server name, works for me certainly 
>> for IMAP and SMTP. I found that buried in a help and support article 
>> on the Microsoft website a few months ago and it's working right now 
>> on Thunderbird, Ubuntu 13.10. For some bizarre reason unbeknown to 
>> everyone the settings given in OWA simply don't work.
>>
>> On 27/01/14 08:51, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>>> Anyone got any thoughts on this?
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>>> On 24/01/2014 18:48, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
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>>>> I use a Hosted Exchange Email account (Office 365) and am having 
>>>> very odd problems connecting both in Thunderbird and Evolution.
>>>>
>>>> If I try to set up IMAP email in both Tbird and Evolution, it just 
>>>> goes into a circle of an error message saying "Cannot connect -- is 
>>>> the User name and Password correct?" which of course they are.
>>>>
>>>> IMAP access works perfectly well in Thunderbird on Windows 8.1 so 
>>>> the server has IMAP set up OK.
>>>>
>>>> Trying to use ExQuilla in TBird with EWS, the autodiscovery works 
>>>> fine, but it then hangs and finally fails on "testing URL".
>>>>
>>>> Other IMAP mail accounts work perfectly well in both Tbird and 
>>>> Evolution, so I'm at a loss as to why this particular IMAP account 
>>>> (and/or EWS via ExQuilla) doesn't work.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone seen this and is there a solution?
>>>>
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