[GTALUG] Fetchmail and Office365 and backslashes, oh my!

[Peter King]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 05:26:44AM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
 
> You might not be able to. I have a newish O365 account that staunchly
> refuses to use any protocol but MS Exchange. POP3 or IMAP at best
> timeout, but feed the same credentials into any exchange/outlook client
> and I'm in.

Well, fetchmail can access O365 as an IMAP client and pick up my mail
reliably (and msmtp deliver it reliably).  That took a bit of fussing
but nothing special.  The problem is in accessing shared mailboxes,
where O365 seems to want the username to be of the form:

   personal.email.account at domainname\shared.email.account[@domainname]

I don't know if the problem is in fetchmail or O365 yet.

> I've also noticed in the main O365 account I pay for, plus a couple set
> up for me by past consultancies, was that my login ID was always an
> @office365.com, @live.ca (!) or some other MS-owned domain. I could
> merrily send and receive e-mail under the company domain, but the
> credentials were always at the same domain.

My login ID is @utoronto.ca, though the server is outlook.office365.com.
As far as I can tell by looking at the headers, that is the domain name;
if I had to venture a guess, I'd say that the University of Toronto pays
for running its own domain and having Microsoft manage the email.

-- 
Peter King			 	peter.king at utoronto.ca
Department of Philosophy
170 St. George Street #521
The University of Toronto		   (416)-978-3311 dept
Toronto, ON  M5R 2M8
       CANADA

http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/

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