[kmail2] [Bug 78629] MS Exchange mail support

[Vincent Fortier via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78629

--- Comment #51 from Vincent Fortier <th0ma7 at gmail.com> ---
I gave it a try.  I had not played with KDE since around a year so I had to
play a little with my installation in order to get things working as is seems
there is a bug blocking plasma to startup properly with 16.04.

For other who might be interested (not entirely related to this thread...):
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:kubuntu-ppa/staging-misc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-desktop kde-l10n-fr

Then getting your package installed:
wget
https://github.com/KrissN/akonadi-ews/releases/download/v0.8.0/akonadi-ews_0.8.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i akonadi-ews_0.8.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f 

Then finally kontact ready:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install kontact kleopatra

Once all set I was able to login into KDE/plasma and launch kontact and get
things going.

Now, the real thing!  A few comments:
- The domain box should be optional and thus perhaps a click on/off be
appropriate
- I think same should be true for the username: in my case there are no
username except my email user... again, by default it may be more appropriate
to auto-fill that box with the name section of the email address with a on/off
to edit manually?
- server auto-discovery failed to work... In my case I use an internal
auto-discovery URL that I have to specify manually.  My understanding of the
interface is that it tries to auto-discover "online" but I cannot assign an
auto-discovery URL manually?

End-result: sadly as-is I wasn't able to get access to my inbox through EWS.

Lastly, hopefully at some point full support for calendar along with contacts &
task will be made available!

Thnx for finally trying to close this gap within the KDE suite, it is really
much appreciated and I look forward at trying later versions!

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