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| author | hazardchem <pthom44@live.com.au> | 2022-09-09 09:32:43 +1000 |
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| committer | Robin Jarry <robin@jarry.cc> | 2022-09-10 09:51:36 +0200 |
| commit | be8cae77aa5df009acdd35c2638de5b9e86c2594 (patch) | |
| tree | bcfa282ede6ad62719f2c1ffb54278773bf53425 | |
| parent | 70d7daa4811694a0b0a1b3001aedf9ccb736639d (diff) | |
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providers: microsoft accounts
Added information for Microsoft based account to use aerc to authenticate
as the standard authentication method fails to allow SMTP.
Signed-off-by: hazardchem <pthom44@live.com.au>
Acked-by: Moritz Poldrack <git@moritz.sh>
| -rw-r--r-- | providers/index.md | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | providers/microsoft.md | 26 |
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diff --git a/providers/index.md b/providers/index.md index 77e248c8..a37d48d1 100644 --- a/providers/index.md +++ b/providers/index.md @@ -2,4 +2,5 @@ title: "aerc-wiki: Providers" --- +- [Microsoft](providers/microsoft.md) - [ProtonMail](providers/protonmail.md) diff --git a/providers/microsoft.md b/providers/microsoft.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8fc17b93 --- /dev/null +++ b/providers/microsoft.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +title: "aerc-wiki: Providers/Microsoft" +--- + +# Microsoft Email + +Setting up aerc for Microsoft is straight forward but the `accounts.conf` file +needs to be modified post setup as the outgoing emails will fail otherwise. + +The main thing that needs to be changed is the outgoing credentials need to +be set to `smtp+login`. The below settings have been made very generic as +Microsoft runs many subdomains such as Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and MSN. + +```ini +[Microsoft] +source = imaps://youraccount%40provider@imapprovider:993 +outgoing = smtp+login://youraccount%40provider@smtpprovider:587 +default = INBOX +smtp-starttls = yes +from = Your Name <youraccount@microsoftaccount> +copy-to = Sent +``` + +The website to check settings is located here [POP, IMAP, and SMTP Settings][1]. + +[1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/pop-imap-and-smtp-settings-8361e398-8af4-4e97-b147-6c6c4ac95353 |