![]() README talks vaguely about log monitoring, and this hack isn’t permitted by Redirect-uri, but this is awkward enough to use that it seems useless: the In theory, you can use the -local-server-auth with a localhost Unfortunately, for truly headless operation, things are a bit more complicated. In the upstream project, only initial authorizations require the GUI. Here’s my service file I use, slightly modified from the upstream’s README: $ cat /etc/systemd/system/rviceĮxecStart=/home/localuser/src/email-oauth2-proxy/emailproxy.py -external-auth -no-gui -config-file /home/localuser/src/email-oauth2-proxy/my.config The tray menu to follow the authorization flow. When you first connect, you will get a GUI pop-up and you need to interact with We’ll configure fetchmail as follows: poll localhost protocol IMAP port 1993Īuth password username " "Īnd mutt like this: set smtp_url = "smtp:// smtp_pass True, and unfortunately, that’s the default. To False: I’m a bit bemused on why anyone would ever want this to be set to We’re re-using davmail’s client_id again. Permanent configuration and acquired tokens, but the static part looks somethingĬlient_id = facd6cff-a294-4415-b59f-c5b01937d7bd We need some small tweaks to the shipped configuration file. Basically it was like a “translator” between by computer and the Exchange and then provided me with whatever service I needed.Experimenting with replacing davmail with Simon Robinson’s super-cool So I started looking here and there and found this DavMail, which works as a Gateway to “talk” with an Exchange server and then locally provide you whatever you need in order to use it. I have to confess, I was really ready to give up and simply use the old webmail and learn to live with it, however, I gave a last shot on my research capabilities and I found a possible solution: what if I had a way to put a “man in the middle”? What if I was able to make the IMAP to run locally on my computer while my computer simply pull the emails via Exchange protocol? It was a long shot but, could work… No IMAP, no Office365, game over? Not yet! However, Mailspring couldn’t connect directly to an Exchange server (using Exchange’s protocol) unless you use Office365, it required IMAP (another luxury!) and the IT department at my office was reluctant to activate IMAP for “security reasons”. ![]() These were: Hiri, which had a very modern and innovative user interface and had Exchange Server capabilities and there also was Mailspring which is a fork of an old foe ( Nylas Mail) and which was my real favorite. Found some options as email clients!Īfter some other research I found there were a couple of options for email clients that I could use and that actually would work the way I expected. All of these are capable of being connected to Exchange servers (one way or the other) but again, they don’t meet the standard of a clean, easy and modern GUI I wanted plus they couldn’t even manage my Exchange calendar well (which was a real deal breaker for me). This leads me not liking Thunderbird, K-9 or Evolution Mail clients. ![]() I actually use the webmail as I don’t like to be tied to my email client or even my computer device, if something happens and I need to switch to a newer device I don’t want to have to copy things over, I just want things to be there waiting for me to use them. I am a regular Google user, I have been using GMail for the past 14 years as my personal email, so I really like how it looks and works. Another problem, I am picky for my email client ![]() Short answer is yes, however, as I mentioned we are using Exchange 2010, so the webmail interface is not only outdated, it even won’t allow you to have a decent email signature as it has a limit of characters in webmail configuration, so I needed to use an email client if I really wanted to be able to use the email the way I needed. So, this means I didn’t have the luxury of using automatic configuration that comes in majority of email clients to simply connect to Office365. The first problem encountered in my situation was that we don’t currently use Office365 like probably majority of current people does for hosting their Exchange accounts, we currently use an on premises Exchange server and a very old version of it. ![]()
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