[Feature Request] Exchange Support about mailspring HOT 33 CLOSED

Hi I want to use Mailspring but I dont do this because it dont have EWS support. In company that I work, we have EWS without IMAP support. Please improve support to EWS.

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Speaking about this, Evolution Mailer has a plugin called Evolution-EWS (Exchange Web Services)
https://github.com/GNOME/evolution-ews

I would really love to see Mailspring work with Exchange as well since it's greatly used in corporate environment.

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Hey folks! Thanks for filing this - Exchange support is definitely high on the list of features to add, but it's also one of the biggest. Exchange uses an entirely different protocol to sync mail, and the documentation is pretty sparse. It's actually patented, so there aren't many open source Exchange implementations. That said, once IMAP + SMTP support is rock solid, I'll definitely see if we can get it in. That GNOME mailer plugin might be a good place to start.

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Just wanted to follow up on this, see if there is any movement on this or if there is a timeline of when this might happen?

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@bengotow , any updates on getting EWS implemented?

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Another +1 here. Totally impossible to use it for the working purpose without Exchange support

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Hi!
I'm trying mailSpring and looks very promising. I'm a Linux user (Ubuntu). Although Exchange support is not done yet I'ved tried configure a IMAP account via DavMail (http://davmail.sourceforge.net/) which I'm using currently with Thunderbird.

But the account settings for an IMAP account only permits standards ports (143, 993). DavMail uses custom ports (1143 for example) and I can't configure them. Any possibility to change the ports combo to other editable control?

Great work!

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There's also an evolution ActiveSync (AES) plugin:
https://github.com/GNOME/evolution-activesync

It would be nice if Mailspring could support both ;)

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Just wondering if anything is in the works... with Newton going away im looking for a good replacement..

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Just another bump to say EWS support would be amazing.

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I would like to use Mailspring as my main client, but without ActiveSync support it is impossible.

I would spend the time and try to implement the protocol but since mailsync is proprietary and it is pointless from my view to try to add it to mailcore2 with the goal of porting it to mailsync since I got no idea how far mailsync has diverged from the mc2 code base.

Here is the research info I have compiled so far:
MS Protocol info

• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecifications/default
• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc307725(v=exchg.80).aspx
• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd299446(v=exchg.80).aspx
• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc463895(v=exchg.80).aspx
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAPI
• https://wiki.zentyal.org/wiki/En/4.0/OpenChange_(Microsoft(R)_Exchange_Server_protocol_implementation)
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/developer/exchange-server-interoperability-guidance/dn144954(v%3Dexchg.140)

Implementations
ActiveSync

• http://z-push.org/
• https://syncevolution.org/
• https://sogo.nu/
• https://github.com/GNOME/evolution-activesync

MAPI (RPC/EWS)

• https://community.zarafa.com/php-ext/
• https://github.com/SlavekB/openchange
• https://github.com/GNOME/evolution-ews

Source: [MS-OXPROTO].pdf page 20

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Still looking for this! I absolutely despise Outlook.

Hey, I recommend using Mailspring WITH DavMail as @jeroen7s recommended. I have written an article about how I did it here: https://itsfoss.com/microsoft-exchange-linux-desktop/. I hope it helps.

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I'd love to see this in Mailspring. Especially since a recent update to exchange server broke the web app in anything other than internet explorer, and for whatever reason, I can't update to the version that fixes that bug. It would be even more legendary if Mailspring could support both EAS and EWS.

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i want to chime in and say thank you @leopck for beating me to the punch. Exchange support is literally THE reason I ever became interested in nylas and now mailspring. I need a usable clean client for exchange on ubuntu.

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I've tried setting up Mailspring with Davmail to access Exchange mail but it just constantly says it's looking for messages and building the indexes. Occasionally DavMail pops up a notification saying folder '[Mailspring]' not found.

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Hi, and another bump, this is really important feature to implement. Thank you.

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I am wondering if this is still on the path, as last response saying it WAS one of the highest priorities items on the list of features to add was more than 1 year ago. I think this would make a LOT of users to not only download but also pay for this email client (including myself) as this is one thing is not available for Linux users easily. Yes, there is a connector for Evolution mail which has been referenced in this same thread but, have you even tried it? Not only Evolution is really old looking and ugly, but also this connector doesn't even work well.

I really would love this feature to still be on the list at that some day we can get it.

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Yeah i wonder if they still actively develop this client or it's just kinda a side project
I switched to evolution just to have exchange support, but it's just not as nice of a client as mailspring, especially UI wise
Though i found the exchange integration does work well, don't have any issues with it (though you need to install some extra packages not installed by default on ubuntu, adding exchange to gnome-accounts and expecting it to work is not enough)
Edit: bad language, grammar

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I'm using Hiri, and there is "calendaring". Of course it is not Outlook calendar but works fine for me. The ugliness of both Thunderbird and Evolution (also some weird connection issues from time to time) forced me to switch to Hiri at some point.

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try this: http://davmail.sourceforge.net/
it basically creates a bridge from exchange to SMTP/IMAP, works fine with MailSpring.
Bit annoying to setup though, but once setup works great

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have you guys looked at https://github.com/gautamsi/ews-javascript-api ?

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Still looking for this! I absolutely despise Outlook.

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Hi!
I would like to see support for EWS as well. As people commented Evolution and Thunderbird works fine but they are not good mail clients. I am looking at Hiri as well and it works fine (so does Evolution and Thunderbird) but I think Hiri is not that good.
Please update us if this is something on the roadmap. Would easy pay a Pro version if this came as native support.

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I also use davmail+mailspring. unfortunately, I have the problem: mguessan/davmail#95. Does anyone have idea?

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Ouch, Been here in 2017, tried Mailspring again today thinking that in 2 years this would have been achieved.

Cant' image how many people is coming here and there going anywhere else due to the coronavirus remote working situation...

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I would also very happy to see an EWS support in Mailspring.

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Me three - 🤞️

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Definitely +1 here. Exchange support is the only piece missing for me really, and it's that one reason why I didn't uninstall Windows Mail yet. Apart from that, imo this is the best client around. Keep on rocking 🤟

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Another +1 👋

I'm planning on switching business email providers from Google to Microsoft. Google's email is excellent but the rest of their offerings (storage, communication, office tools) are lacking when compared to what Microsoft offers, and Microsoft is also cheaper overall. The only thing holding me back is lack of Exchange/ActiveSync support in Mailspring which has been my email client since Google killed Inbox.

I'm likely going to make the switch regardless and set up IMAP for now, but I am worried about managing my email past October, when Microsoft plans on disabling Basic Authentication and move entirely to OAuth 2.0. Whether this means updating to support EWS/ActiveSync or simply supporting the new OAuth with IMAP (if possible), I hope I can continue to use Mailspring going forward.

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Another +1 here. I'll happily buy the "Pro" subscription for this

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Thank you for your patience on this issue! I know it's frustrating when you cannot connect to your email with Mailspring.

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https://community.getmailspring.com/t/institutional-office365-not-working/48

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