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Hmm, my school uses office365 for its email, and I've managed to successfully hook it up to offlineimap for my email. I think the only real "special" thing that I had to do was have it use my email address (i.e. user@university.edu) as my username to authenticate with.

The relevant section of my .offlineimaprc (trimmed for brevity, edited for privacy):

  [Repository remote]
  type = IMAP
  remotehost = outlook.office365.com
  remoteuser = "user@university.edu"
  remoteport = 993

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~ $ offlineimap OfflineIMAP 7.3.2 Licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or any later version (with an OpenSSL exception) imaplib2 v2.101 (bundled), Python v2.7.18, OpenSSL 1.1.1g 21 Apr 2020 Account sync work: *** Processing account work Establishing connection to outlook.office365.com:993 (work-remote) Enter password for user '<user>@massive.se': PLAIN authentication failed: AUTHENTICATE failed. LOGIN authentication failed: LOGIN failed. ERROR: All authentication types failed: PLAIN: AUTHENTICATE failed. LOGIN: LOGIN failed. *** Finished account 'work' in 0:11 ERROR: Exceptions occurred during the run! ERROR: All authentication types failed: PLAIN: AUTHENTICATE failed. LOGIN: LOGIN failed. Traceback: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/offlineimap/accounts.py", line 293, in syncrunner self.__sync() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/offlineimap/accounts.py", line 369, in __sync remoterepos.getfolders() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/offlineimap/repository/IMAP.py", line 452, in getfolders imapobj = self.imapserver.acquireconnection() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/offlineimap/imapserver.py", line 586, in acquireconnection self.__authn_helper(imapobj) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/offlineimap/imapserver.py", line 459, in __authn_helper "failed:\n\t%s"% msg, OfflineImapError.ERROR.REPO)