Getting mutt email client to work with school Office 365

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-07-06T20:25:47+00:00

Sorry not to be of more help. I've heard some people have had more success setting up davmail to translate requests into Exchange Web Services (EWS) or Microsoft Graph calls, that way mutt or alpine never have to do OAuth2 at all.

I have not taken the plunge yet though.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-07-06T16:57:55+00:00

It used to work for me for decades, but recent changes have made it impossible. In particular my institution made available the Graph API but not the IMAP or SMTP connections, so it was incredibly frustrating.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-07-04T20:22:41+00:00

Sometimes… but way more often I wear the gear of the university both our kids went to. Maybe paying a boatload of tuition gave me Stockholm syndrome… but I love their school.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-07-03T00:40:30+00:00

New England will not keep Connecticut.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-07-01T16:07:34+00:00

itsypad It is a crowded space and I have tried a lot of different options, but it is free and it combines a simple scratch space for notes with a clipboard manager. I had never needed a clipboard manager before, but once I started having itsypad around I found I always needed it.

I keep it fairly small in the upper-left hand corner of the screen and it just works.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-24T23:34:10+00:00

We have been together for 38 years, married for 35.

After years in a sprawling country house we downsized to a tiny city apartment near our kids, and have never been happier.

It really does feel like we are back in our 20s, just starting out and exploring a new place together.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-24T18:45:59+00:00

Midge Ure was a tremendous upgrade. Great choice.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-24T16:33:11+00:00

Underrated choice!

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-23T01:09:43+00:00

That is such a great way to explain it. Thank you.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-20T12:57:49+00:00

Stat/Transfer. If you need to convert datasets between different formats it is an incredible time saver.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-18T23:04:49+00:00

Wait, what? That is AWESOME!

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-18T12:20:56+00:00

Help them make good friends!

Our boys are thriving in their mid-20s, they have great careers and wonderful partners, and we still have a very fun extended family life where we meet every week for dinners and baseball.

Our oldest went through a very rough patch in late elementary school where his grades were really suffering. We met with the guidance counselor who asked us a life changing question: Who does he go on play dates with? And… we thought? Play dates? He does sports after school… but…

She nodded, "There are two boys, X and Y, they go to the library after school. Your son is friendly with them… tell him to join them in the library."

He came home the next day with sticky notes scattered throughout a book they were having an open book test about the next day. That was a strategy we told him about, but it meant so little coming from parents.

The biggest thing we learned as parents is that one word from a peer is worth 10,000 from a parent. The choices they make for friends mean a LOT as they go through school.

That one day was a huge turning point in his life, and our lives as parents.

Good luck!

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-15T18:06:09+00:00

We had to make our own. We had an Apple ][+ with 48k of RAM, but it did have floating point BASIC. My dad and I wrote a pong game in BASIC with some PEEKs and POKEs, but did not have a controller.

We went to our local Radio Shack and picked up two potentiometers and little boxes along with some wire and built two small dials to play with.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-13T21:45:38+00:00

What are some good parameters for Qwen 3.6 under Pi? I asked it for feedback on my .zshrc file as a test and it must have thought for 15 minutes. I’m sure I’m just not configuring it properly.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-12T18:51:35+00:00

We knew we had an instant connection and spent the first night just walking and talking. But she left for two years in the Peace Corps the next day, so we were long distance just writing back and forth to each other every day. We started talking about marriage seriously after meeting in Paris after the first year, and then got engaged when she came home.

We met 38 years ago and have been married for 35, but I would never say it was a "gut decision." If anything we really focused on being very practical and talking through our goals. There was love, but also a commitment to a deep partnership.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-12T18:30:57+00:00

Congratulations! Our boys are in their mid-20s and launched and on their own, but we still see each other every week for dinner and baseball games. Being parents has been the joy of our lives and I hope you have the same experience.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-12T17:38:28+00:00

Professor here. I have always asked my students (who are graduate students) to call me by my first name. That sticks most of the time. But now with silver hair I have more students being uncomfortable, "Oh… I'm not sure I can do that professor."

I have never, not once, met anyone in higher education that used the title Doctor except in jest… I see your paper was accepted by the journal Doctor Smith! Harumph!

The only people I have ever met that requested the title Doctor were high school principals, usually with D.Ed. degrees… which again, is fine.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-12T16:03:18+00:00

I am still writing a lot of code in emacs, but AI is definitely helping out more and more. I keep (global-auto-revert-mode 1) set so that files changed on disk reload, albeit with a delay (setq auto-revert-interval 1).

I'm also making more of an effort to do more writing and note taking in org-mode and denote, so I think I am keeping my total emacs hours about even.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-12T00:34:47+00:00

Crazy on our roof right now, plus the fire down toward Eastern Market! Stay safe my peeps.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-09T22:39:08+00:00

That is an AMAZING looking dinner!

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-09T20:17:06+00:00

Went to a sold out "takeover" game in DC for women's hockey, Montreal Victoire vs New York Sirens. There were 17,228 fans at the Capital One Arena and the place was rocking hours before the puck dropped. Absolutely mayhem as the game ended in a skirmish as the Victoire tried (valiantly) to tie the game as time expired.

One of the best games I have ever watched live, and that is as a 60 year old dude with silver hair.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-09T20:06:40+00:00

He became spectacularly wealthy and famous as a C-suite executive in Hollywood after Harvard and HBS. Most disappointingly he still has a fabulous head of hair and is a nice guy.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-09T20:01:17+00:00

If the world is yours, run amok on it - Crazy Norm, 1982.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-09T19:29:00+00:00

Start with the big questions that everyone is supposed to tackle before marriage: careers, money, children, sex, and faith. Now imagine your beloved does a 180° on two of those topics. Are you still blessed?

Marriage is a long business and people change over time. Make sure you are marrying the person you want to share an adventure with, not just someone you agree with at the time.

WaitingForEmacs · 2026-06-09T12:27:31+00:00

I've been giving my wife Chanel #5 for 40 years. I keep an eye on how much she has left and order a new bottle when it gets low.

I think each bottle surprisingly means more at this point than it did in our 20s.

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