Manual configuration for EWS account does not use EWS to send the email
Hi!
I have configured a EWS email account that requires manual configuration (I need to pass the override Office365 settings with application ID, tenand ID,...). When I select manual config I can configure the EWS server settings OK and the receiving part works OK. The problem is the outgoing server is not created OK (it is imap with password setup). I need to use the same EWS to send the email, imap is not allowed in the account. And I cannot configure the account to use EWS as the outgoing server. The outgoing server cannot be EWS and I need to setup one. So I'm in a loop.
For what I have read, thunderbird can send the email using EWS (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-exchange), but my feeling is that using manual setup (which I need to do to configure this account) breaks something internally and the outgoing is separated from the EWS receiving part. And I cannot configure back to use the internal EWS configuration in the receiving server part.
Can I do something to send emails using the same EWS configuration? What does the automatic setup to use the EWS configuration? Is there any bug for this situation?
Thanks in advance!
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Finally I configure it OK. Maybe the reason was I had made a lot of tries or something. I don't know. Finally my prefs.js is like this:
``` user_pref("mail.outgoingserver.ews1.auth_method", 10); user_pref("mail.outgoingserver.ews1.description", ""); user_pref("mail.outgoingserver.ews1.ews_url", "https://outlook.office365.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx"); user_pref("mail.outgoingserver.ews1.key", "ews1"); user_pref("mail.outgoingserver.ews1.username", "<myemail>"); ... user_pref("mail.smtpserver.ews1.authMethod", 10); user_pref("mail.smtpserver.ews1.description", "<mydesc>"); user_pref("mail.smtpserver.ews1.ews_url", "https://outlook.office365.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx"); user_pref("mail.smtpserver.ews1.hostname", "outlook.office365.com"); user_pref("mail.smtpserver.ews1.port", 465); user_pref("mail.smtpserver.ews1.try_ssl", 3); user_pref("mail.smtpserver.ews1.type", "ews"); user_pref("mail.smtpserver.ews1.username", "<myemail>"); ```
Then you need to add the `ews1` to the `mail.smtpservers`. In my case I have three accounts:
``` user_pref("mail.smtpservers", "smtp1,smtp3,ews1"); ```
And after that I can join my account to the ews1 outgoing server. In the main account settings of the EWS account the `Outgoing Server` in the end can be changed to use the edscription used in the `ews1`.
I started creating it manually as smtp and then changing it to ews. I detected that creating a mnual smtp server adds the `mail.smtpserver.smtpX` entries. I change them to `mail.smtpserver.ews1`. Then realized that the `mail.outgoingserver.ews1` are related and in my conf I had several of them (like remnants form my previous tries). I changed to use the same `mail.outgoingserver.ews1` with more or less the same values and now it works. I can send emails using my EWS only account.
Don't know if my initial issue was because the manual config, several tries I did to configure this account or even more things. But finally it seems to work OK. I can receive and send emails now.
Do a copy of your prefs.js before doing this. :-D
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