15 Sep
2024
15 Sep
'24
6:57 a.m.
On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 04:42:22 Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote:
I don't like Outlook, unfortunately that's
what my school uses.
For now I use Prospect Mail to acces this mail (and it does work correctly,
although the interface is terrible - seems to be a clone of Outlook's).
My global problem is that when they send a mail to my outlook address, I
don't know it. I had found a nice way to live with it, by redirecting
(forwarding) the mail from Outlook to kmail (I still have to use Prospect
Mail to send an answer because since they ativated two factor
authentication Outlook's smtp refuses me).
Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, they have blocked redirection.
To clarify, by 'they' do you mean your school? Also, was the forwarding set
up via the "Forwarding" or the "Rules" option in your account
settings? I
would find it odd that they blocked forwarding emails (which is just a fancy
way of sending), so perhaps they've blocked sending emails to external
domains?
In any case, I'd recommend contacting the IT department and raising an issue.
Getting mail from Outlook from kmail fails (I guess
because of two factor
authentication).
That would be the primary issue, yes. However, even if KMail supported OAuth,
you may find that your school has a policy in place that prevents third-party
clients. I assume Prospect Mail gets around this because it just bundles the
outlook web app (although, it seems to provide some desktop integration).
I have not been able to imagine a way to make Prospect
Mail tell me that I
received mail (and anyway it's not running all the time).
I wanted to try Mailspring, but it wants to store my credentials in a
keyring, and although I have both gnome-keyring and libsecret installed
(courtesy of MX-Linux I suppose), Mailspring does not find them (and
mailspring --password-store= does not work, either with libsecret,
gnome-keyring or tdewalletmanager-trinity).
So, as several of you recently praised the help offered by this mailing
list, maybe I am in luck and one of you has some advice to offer on the
subject?
Would it be possible to start Prospect mail (cron job?) and get some
information about new incomming mails?
Please keep in mind that I haven't tried either of the below suggestions,
although I'd be happy to help if you get stuck.
A quick look at the Prospect Mail (PM) github[0] shows that it supports
a '--minimized' command line option, so you could possibly set up a cron job
that runs a script to start and, after some time, stop the program without
the GUI appearing. Although, if you're not receiving notifications anymore,
then that may be an issue in either PM, TDE's knotify, or your configuration.
Another potential option is "email-oauth2-proxy"[1]. It's a proxy for the
traditional IMAP/POP/SMTP connections that KMail uses. In theory, it should
be possible to set it up so that KMail can receive and send Outlook emails.
mio
[0]: https://github.com/julian-alarcon/prospect-mail
[1]: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy