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I have previously written an article on setting up Outlook/Exchange email on Linux, in which I discussed setting up DavMail. Unfortunately, not long after I wrote that article, Microsoft rolled out an update that broke the authentication scheme I used. This article describes how to fix the problem.

Did you know that your shell probably has some very convenient editing keyboard shortcuts built right in, that will mostly work regardless of your terminal emulator, whether your logged in via a TTY, ssh, etc.

Employers and universities are fond of using Microsoft Exchange/Office 365/Outlook as an email provider. And, because Microsoft is Microsoft, these services do not support standard IMAP/POP/SMTP interfaces. This makes getting them set up on Linux a royal pain (unless you’re content to use the Web interface, anyway). That is not to say that it is impossible. There are several different ways to connect to your Microsoft email account using a Linux desktop email client. In this article, I discuss two of them: evolution-ews and DavMail.

Vim is a monster of a program, and it isn’t alone. Linux is chock full of incredibly powerful applications like Vim, emacs, sed, awk, or even bash itself. And learning to use any of these tools well requires a lot of time investment.

roff, short for ‘run off’, is an old-school document formatting language that is readily available for Linux systems in the form of GNU roff (groff). In this article, I discuss how groff works, and how to use it to format simple documents.