[Alpine-info] Reading Teams messages in Alpine? (NN mentioned UB-felles (fwd)

[Thomas Gramstad via Alpine-info]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2025, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:


> On Wed, 8 Oct 2025, Thomas Gramstad via Alpine-info wrote:

> 

> >  At work a lot of people seem to be moving away from E-mail to

> >  sending messages in Teams. I receive notes by e-mail that a new

> >  Teams message has been sent to me, but it seems that I must login

> >  into Teams in order to actually read the message. But still the

> >  Teams message seems to be some kind of Microsoft 365 mail

> >  message.

> > 

> >  So I'm wondering if there is a way to change my setup so that I

> >  can read the actual message from Teams in Alpine -- either

> >  change something in Alpine or in Teams/365 or both?

> > 

> >  If this is not possible today, is it something that could be

> >  added to Alpine?

> 

> When I had a teams account it was part of a Microsoft

> account that also included enterprise email (I don't remember

> the exact combination of words which may have included 365 and

> or Outlook). I believe I could just forward that email account

> to my preferred address.


I already have that, and use Alpine against it.


> Alpine does support Microsoft email boxes if you use OAUTH2

> aka OAUTHBEARER.


I have that too.

The problem is Teams-specific.


> I found Teams on Linux was useable,

> you are not being tied to Windows.


Um, OK... But I think the Teams set up is determined by computer 
staff as a part of Office365.

In any case, I don't really want to use Teams on Linux, I only 
want the Teams messages readable in my regular university mail, 
via Alpine.

Thomas Gramstad



> >  Example message below, with sender name anonymized by me.

> > 

> >  Thomas Gramstad

> > 

> > 

> >  ---------- Forwarded message ----------

> >  Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 08:45:26 +0000

> >  From: NN in Teams <no-reply at teams.mail.microsoft>

> >  To: thomas.gramstad at ub.uio.no

> >  Subject: NN mentioned UB-felles

> > 

> >  Hei UB-felles  Det har åpnet seg opp noen plasser til filmvisingen på

> >  Cinemateket i dag, som

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> >  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

> >  Hi,

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> >  NN mentioned UB-felles in UB-felles > General

> >  Hei UB-felles  Det har åpnet seg opp noen plasser til filmvisingen på

> >  Cinemateket i dag, som

> >  egentlig er fullbooket...

> >    Reply in Teams 

> >  Install Microsoft Teams now

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