remembering auth details for excorporate with .netrc

Question

I've set up excorporate mode so that I can use emacs to read my outlook calendar. However I am annoyed by having to input a username/password every time I open emacs. I tried a .netrc:

machine outlook.office365.com login me@somewhere.com password 'secret'

But it doesn't work. Can anyone point me further in the right direction?

I'd start by setting `auth-source-debug` to t, and looking in the `*Messages*` buffer. Perhaps you need a `port` keyword as well (I don't see excorporate calling auth-source, so it must be calling it indirectly if at all) — rpluim, Mar 25 '19 at 21:14
Thank you for this useful question. Where did you put your .netrc file? — Charles Cad, Mar 24 '20 at 15:20
The file format and more details are explained in the [manual page](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/auth/Help-for-users.html#Help-for-users) — Muihlinn, Apr 23 '20 at 18:16

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 29 '21 at 00:09

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as per the comment from @rpluim adding the port outlook.office365.com:443 did the job nicely:

machine outlook.office365.com:443 port https login john@email.com password changeme123

Don't forget that Emacs comes with built-in GPG support, so you can encrypt this file easily by naming it ~/.authinfo.gpg

edited Jul 29 '21 at 00:09

John Hamelink

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answered Mar 25 '19 at 22:51

singingfish

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Just to add that this also work with .authinfo file. – juanerasmoe Nov 11 '20 at 16:19

remembering auth details for excorporate with .netrc

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