On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 03:29:54PM -0500, Rufus wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 07:39:24PM +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-08-25 at 11:26 -0400, ru...@fastmail.co.uk wrote:
> > > Is there anything i can do to setup Evolution EWS to work with this
> > > or am i out of luck?  I had a look at how Davmail was trying to do it
> > > also, and they weren't dealing with this Citrix Netscaler thing,
> > > although there was some patches where they were passing multiple
> > > passwords into the system.
> > 
> >     Hi,
> > the OWA and the EWS interfaces are quite different things. The
> > evolution-ews cannot deal with redirected password prompts, definitely
> > not those where you are asked in a web page to provide your
> > credentials. The evolution-ews is not a browser, thus cannot deal with
> > such requests.
> I understand. Makes sense. 
> 
> > A chance would be if you'd be able to setup some tunnel, where you'll
> > pre-authenticate and then the evolution-ews will connect through that
> > tunnel, which will be already unlocked.
> > 
> > The last time I heard about similar pre-authentication, it was handled
> > per machine/IP/MAC, which meant that you did the pre-authentication in
> > a browser, then any application could access the site behind this
> > "security wall" without being asked for the extra credentials. Hard to
> > tell whether your site works the same, you might give it a try. If
> > it'll work, then you do not need any tunnel.
> 
> I've been tinkering with this, and unfortunately it doesn't seem to
> work for me yet... I think (not sure) that it must be handled in the
> web session somehow when i authenticate from citrix netscaler and then
> get redirected to the EWS OWA url.
> I've confirmed this by opening up a second browser... it complains at
> me and asks me to login again.
> 
> Also, strangely, when I open up another browser it asks me to log in
> again... so its definitely not looking at my MAC or IP.  
> > 
> > By the way, how does Outlook handle this situation?
> 
> I'm definitely not able to use outlook on this workstation... I can
> only use outlook on a desktop as a service system running windows,
> again, authenticated through citrix.
> 
> It's a mess and I have a lot of mail. :/   I'll let you know if I come
> up with anything.  Maybe I can get davmail to sit in the middle and
> then have evolution pull from that via imap/etc..
> 
> 
> >     Bye,
> >     Milan
> > 
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> -- 
> -Rufus

I just had another thought, my work phone is connected (through
iOS).... is there anything in there i can get evolution to connect and
pull mail through?  Apparently it's "ActiveSync" (I'm not familiar
with it...)

-- 
-Rufus
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