How to enable debug for emClient autodiscover process SmarterMail server

Hello emClient Team,

I’m facing some issues to have emClient autodiscover settings for a mailbox hosted on a SmarterMail server (user with EWS enabled).

When it is doing the initial lookup, it returns an error:

What is strange is:

  • If I disable EWS for this account, autodiscover will work (fallback to IMAP/SMTP/DAV config)
  • Setting up this account in emClient with EWS enabled used to work like a breeze earlier this year

I found nothing relevant on server side autodiscover logs.
Is there a way to enable DEBUG log on emClient for the autodiscover process to try to figure out what is going on ?

Thanks a lot for the feedback!

I’m facing some issues to have emClient autodiscover settings for a mailbox hosted on a SmarterMail server (user with EWS enabled.

That’s strange as SmarterMail is supported on automatic account wizard as per this eM Client setup link. https://www.emclient.com/em-with-smartermail-server

We don’t have any debug info on this free community forum how to diagnose and fix the automatic discovery problem with Smarter mail.

So reccomend if you have a current active paid Pro, Personal or Business version go to the VIP support page and login and lodge a support ticket for assistance with that.

If you have run out of your 12 months support time you can get another year support extension via the following webpage. https://www.emclient.com/extend-support

Hello Cyberzork,

Actually I found it was due to emClient trying to lookup my domain autodiscover settings from o365 (althought I never used the domain on o365 infrastructure…) and this was preventing autodiscover to work correctly with an EWS enabled account.

I added

127.0.0.1 autodiscover.outlook.com outlook.office365.com

To my hosts file and now autodiscover works again like a charm.

It would still be interresting to know what emClient is asking to outlook.office365.com and what is answered, and why it prevents autodiscover process to succeed.

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