[Alpine-info] O365 XOAUTH2 via fetchmail

[Andrew C Aitchison]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2022, Carl Edquist wrote:


>> I hope the maintainer of fetchmail decides to include OAUTH2 support.

>

> Actually (and maybe this will be potentially interesting to some others 

> here), apparently the development branch for the unreleased fetchmail 7 does 

> contain some amount of oauth2 support, despite the maintainer's original 

> reluctance.


OAUTH2 support has been has been in the contrib section of fetchmail 7 for 
at least 4 years. On Saturday (16 April 2022) Matthias Andree, the 
fetchmail maintainer, wrote
https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/fetchmail-users/?viewmonth=202204&viewday=16

    So if the abomination of hundreds of pages of a "standard" just for
    authentication by itself does NOT suffice to implement OAuth2, then
    we should probably leave it out and remove the experimental bits
    that are in fetchmail's code before a release, even from contrib,
    and replace them with a document README.OAuth2 that starts with
    "why does fetchmail not implement OAuth2".

    Or else somebody show me to a mail service that is not just some
    SOHO site and that *does* implement OAuth2 without requiring
    jumping through arbitrary hoops and showing dressage tricks or play
    sit up and beg or something, then we can implement it and document
    "why you cannot use OAuth2 with Google" instead.

so I fear that the reluctance to support OAUTH2 has not gone away :-(

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Andrew C. Aitchison					Kendal, UK
 			andrew at aitchison.me.uk