POA Support [$1,000]

[Danielle Foré]

Mail should populate accounts through POA https://launchpad.net/pantheon-online-accounts

This would involve creating a POA extension to add generic email address accounts so that the accounts dialog can be fully removed from Mail.

On first run, Mail would prompt the user to add an account through POA instead of presenting a dialog

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/28413720-poa-support

[kay van der Zander (kay20)]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16l4pvhJdcL0V37JKojkyC3z8gGsFVLATDmoxPsSyR7Q/edit#

how to use POA

[kay van der Zander (kay20)]

all account currently supported by the online account plugin for switchboard (mail accounts) should be supported to transferred the account to pantheon mail. It should include mail and contacts data. so the integration is really smooth.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

After some discussion in Slack, it sounds like the best way to solve this might just be abandoning Geary's custom IMAP engine and using Evolution Data Server.

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

Both GMail and Outlook allow signing in to their IMAP and SMTP servers via Oauth2. Dropping Geary's IMAP server altogether seems like an overkill solution, given that work only needs to be done on the authorization components of Geary. The rest is fine.

Contact integration would require additional work though.

Outlook: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn440163.aspx
Gmail: https://developers.google.com/gmail/oauth_overview

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

*Geary's IMAP Engine

[Zisu Andrei (matzipan)]

I've looked at using evolution-data-server for this, but it says "The Evolution Data Server package provides a unified backend for programs that work with contacts, tasks, and calendar information. " and throughout the documentation there doesn't seem to be any reference to mail.

Looking through the source, it seems libcamel is what we're interested in.