GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 709393
Support IMAP/SMTP for Windows Live accounts
Last modified: 2013-10-09 14:49:21 UTC
This looks like some low hanging fruit for GOA: http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2013/09/12/outlook-com-now-with-imap.aspx I'm a little unclear whether live.com accounts are the same as outlook.com accounts. Assuming they are, this may only require some simple modifications to GoaWindowsLiveProvider. The details are: Incoming IMAP Server: imap-mail.outlook.com Server port: 993 Encryption: SSL Outgoing SMTP Server: smtp-mail.outlook.com Server port: 587 Encryption: TLS OAuth 2.0 scopes: "wl.imap" and "wl.offline_access" The E-D-S changes should be trivial. Sadly no CalDAV/CardDAV support yet.
> I'm a little unclear whether live.com accounts are the same as outlook.com accounts. Assuming they are, this may only require some simple modifications to GoaWindowsLiveProvider. Yes. All Windows Live Mail, Hotmail and Outlook.com mail are the same accounts since Microsoft has migrated all of their users to Outlook.com. I have an old Hotmail address which I created in around 2005 and I kept using it with POP3 all the time. I could finally switch it to IMAP now and it works fine with both Evolution and Thunderbird (Icedove on Debian). So I can CONFIRM it. The account database for Evolution/GNOME should therefore be updated to use the above IMAP and SMTP servers for all Windows Live (@live.com), Hotmail (@hotmail.com) and Outlook.com (@outlook.com) mail addresses. Currently, Evolution (in my case version 3.8.5) still assumes that Hotmail uses POP3 for incoming mail and that the SMTP server is smtp.live.com which is not valid anymore. Please update the account database in this regard. The username to be used both for the IMAP and SMTP servers is the respective email address btw. So, it will be "user123@hotmail.com" for a Hotmail account. There was also a statement regarding the IMAP transition from the Outlook.com team on reddit [1]. Cheers, Adrian > [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1m926j/we_are_the_outlookcom_team_ask_us_anything/cc6yl6l
I am using gnome 3.10 (f20). The live.com issue seems to be solved (using imap/smtp). But yes, a quick update of windows live from pop to imap will be great.
Created attachment 256620 [details] [review] live: Add support for mail
s/outlook.com/Windows Live/ for consistency.
Testing this, it looks like a "MailEnabled" key is not getting written to the accounts.conf file, and so the OnlineAccounts.Mail interface is not exported. After manually adding "MailEnabled=true" to accounts.conf and restarting the goa-daemon, the interface was exported as expected. Since supported interfaces for a GOA account are enabled by default, maybe for the sake of robustness a missing "*Enabled" key should imply TRUE, not FALSE?
(In reply to comment #5) > Testing this, it looks like a "MailEnabled" key is not getting written to the > accounts.conf file, and so the OnlineAccounts.Mail interface is not exported. Works for me. Maybe there was a mismatch between the libgoa / libgoabackend / goa-daemon versions that you were using.
(In reply to comment #6) > Works for me. Maybe there was a mismatch between the libgoa / libgoabackend / > goa-daemon versions that you were using. I'm assuming that's the case. I'll give it another try before this slips into a release, just to be sure.
Backported to gnome-3-10 also.