[MlMt] Update for outlook.com/hotmail.com/live.com users

[Eric Sharakan]

On 17 Jul 2024, at 8:47, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 13 Jul 2024, at 4:51, Eric Sharakan via mailmate wrote:
>
>> Anyway, since updating to r6052, I've noticed the following behaviors 
>> on my Exchange-based corporate email account:
>>
>> - I was asked to resynchronize each of my IMAP folders due to some 
>> issue with the UIDVALIDITY check (sorry I didn't save the exact 
>> message).  I did so, and all seemed fine.
>> - Some hours (or maybe a day or two) later, I lost access to all my 
>> IMAP folders other than my INBOX.  Turns out I had been unsubscribed 
>> from all of them.  I resubscribed myself to them, and all seems okay 
>> now.
>>
>> Benny I don't know if either of these issues are related to the 
>> change you said you made in your email of July 1 or not, but the 
>> timing seemed pretty coincidental.
>
> If related then it's about the Exchange implementation (the IMAP to 
> Exchange interface). There's no way for me to fix that.

Understood, I just wanted to let you know about my one-time need to 
re-synchronize.

>
> I've often been told about UIDVALIDITY issues with Exchange, but I 
> don't think I've heard about the auto-unsubscribe issue.

Yeah, that one was certainly a surprise.

>
>> A couple other points:
>>
>> - I've had OAUTH2 enabled for this account for some time now.
>> - Benny's email said "Make sure you use `outlook.office365.com` and 
>> `smtp.office365.com` as hostnames."  For whatever reason, I am unable 
>> to edit my SMTP server name for this account.  The SMTP server is set 
>> to 'outlook.office365.com' (same as the IMAP server), but is greyed 
>> out such that I can't modify it.
>
> Are you sure the greyed out part isn't just MailMate showing a 
> placeholder name (the one used if nothing explicit is provided)?

😊  oops, you're right.  Thought I tried that before.

Thanks.

-Eric

>
> In any case, both `smtp.office365.com` and `outlook.officie365.com` 
> are fine as far as I know. Only Microsoft will know if there is or 
> ever will be a difference.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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