Mailcow oauth

notziggy

Hello guys, is there a way to make mailcow login for microsoft outlook with just mail and password. Closest I’ve seen is like organization login which gives you custom popup to login with email and password so I thought could that also be remade for mailcow. Currently what documentation says there are some problems with new versions of outlook so my main question is is there a way when user tries to login with my custom mailbox it does not need to fill out that imap settings instead I make more user friendly approach because main users are students and teachers so I want it to keep stuff simple with email and pass login.

esackbauer

probably you have 2FA activated, and this way no regular login with the UI password is possible outside of mailcow UI, because you would not be able to provide the second factor via Outlook to mailcow server.
You have to use app passwords, which every user can create in his mailcow UI, see the yellow box:
https://docs.mailcow.email/manual-guides/mailcow-UI/u_e-mailcow_ui-tfa/
Same applies also if you use SSO/OIDC:
https://docs.mailcow.email/manual-guides/mailcow-UI/u_e-mailcow_ui-generic-oidc/#authentication-for-external-mail-clients-imap-sieve-pop3-smtp

The problem is authentication goes through mailcow only. No chance of getting a custom popup so far. If this is possible at all I cannot tell, you could phrase a feature request on github.

Switching to a different client like Thunderbird would also make first time client configuration easier at it pulls all IMAP CAldav etc. information from DNS. You just provide email address and app password.