Evolution mail on Kali

Now that I'm running Kali Linux completely on my Dell laptop I need to setup my sort of "standard" desktop environment, I'd like something similar to what I've used on the MacBook Pro for years now.

First up: email. I used the Evolution email app years back when I attempted to go Linux on my desktop and it seemed ok so I'll try it again. The first issue is that my work email is all Exchange.

Start with:

sudo apt-get evolution
sudo apt-get evolution-ews

From what I've read evolution-mapi has been deprecated (good) as Microsoft is moving away from MAPI (finally), so Exchange Web Services is it.

After installing the packages I went looking in the GNOME Applications menu and didn't see anything, note that I didn't see a GNOME post hook during package installation, have to figure out how to add that later. For now, type 'evolution' in a terminal.

It fired up and I selected Exchange Web Services as the type of mail system, passed in the auto-discovery URL (for our OWA front-end), selected NTLM (yuk) as the auth type and it seemed to discover the OAB url and such. After that Evolution started up but I don't see any email in it.

Let's see how to make it work...