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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?

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    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, 2019 at 21:14
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    yep, that works outlook.office365.com:443 did it
    – singingfish
    Mar 25, 2019 at 22:49
  • Thank you for this useful question. Where did you put your .netrc file?
    – Charles Cad
    Mar 24, 2020 at 15:20
  • in my home directory
    – singingfish
    Mar 25, 2020 at 20:47
  • The file format and more details are explained in the manual page
    – Muihlinn
    Apr 23, 2020 at 18:16

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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

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  • Just to add that this also work with .authinfo file.
    – juanerasmoe
    Nov 11, 2020 at 16:19

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