[Davmail-users] Newbie Questions:

[David M. <dsm...@gm...>]

I think I sort of understand the purpose of Davmail, but the documentation
that I've seen so far confuses me.  I believe the basic idea is represented
in this diagram:

  A <-> B <-> C <-> D

   - A = user
   - B = mail reader
   - C = Davmail
   - D = mail server

In my setup, B is Emacs Gnus and D is outlook.com.  I had B<->D working
until recently when Outlook.com changed to Modern Authentication.  Now I'm
trying to fit Davmail into the process because it was recommended as the
easiest way.

I started out by trying Thunderbird as B.  Thunderbird already seems to
support Modern Authentication w/o Davmail, but I wanted to test Davmail and
Thunderbird was discussed in Davmail docs.

A problem I seem to have is that my login ID on outlook.com is '
dsm...@gm...'.  Because of this, Thunderbird assumes I'm setting
up a Gmail account, but I can get around that with a manual setup that
specifically says D='outlook.com'.  That works without Davmail.

With Davmail, I think I would set B to point to the locahost port for
Davmail, but I don't understand how to point C at D.  I believe Davmail
will use my email address and try to send the mail to Gmail which is not
what I want.  I'm also not sure how the reverse works (D->C->B->A) with
Davmail.

Is this understandable?  Is there more documentation to explain what I'm
missing?  Any help appreciated as I'm getting Emacs mailing lists on
Outlook.com and Modern Authentication has cut me off.

-- 
David Masterson
Programmer at Large