Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Evolution email setup for Tufts.edu

If anyone is trying to set up the Evolution email client to access a Tufts University (tufts.edu) email account, I hope a Google search leads you here! After spending some time on this, I want to document the working steps for the public record.

  1. When adding an account start with your official email address John.Smith@tufts.edu
  2. Untick "Look up mail server details based on entered e-mail address". (the auto-discovery does not work and takes forever.)
  3. Use Microsoft365 account type (not EWS or IMAP/SMTP - they both do not work)
  4. For login name, use something like jsmith01@tufts.edu (not John.Smith@tufts.edu)
  5. Chose OAuth as the authentication method
  6.  For OAuth, in the advanced options section provide Tufts Outlook Tenant ID: fbbf6c60-0344-4c29-9459-725685739b19
  7. Optionally configure Draft, Sent, and Archive folders to reside on the server. 

Hope this helps!