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 ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
