[Alpine-info] O365 XOAUTH2 via fetchmail

[Carlos E. R.]

On 2022-04-20 12:59, Carl Edquist wrote:

> Hi Eduardo,

> 

> Thanks a bunch for taking the time to give a thoughtful reply!


...


> (The fetchmail daemon also prompts for a password on startup, but this 

> is once per process lifetime, which equates to once per system boot.)

> 

> I had tried out another approach - to make two separate alpine configs. 

> The first one with a rule to move mail on arrival from an IMAP inbox to 

> a local spool mbox file.  The idea is this would sit open as some kind 

> of an, um, foreground daemon that does what i was used to getting out of 

> fetchmail.  This could even sit inside a screen(1) session or something. 

> Then a second config that would not use IMAP at all (and not need any 

> password), which would use the local spool mbox as my inbox.  This would 

> be the one i'd use for normal alpine driving (reading, composing, etc), 

> and i could open up as many of these as i like in separate windows.

> 

> The main trouble with this approach (besides it feeling a little clunky, 

> the fetching instance needing to live in a separate pty somewhere), is 

> if the instance connected to IMAP doing the fetching gets a [MAIL FOLDER 

> "INBOX" CLOSED DUE TO ACCESS ERROR], i'm afraid it might get stuck there 

> unnoticed, waiting for user input before it attempts to reconnect.  On 

> the other hand, fetchmail polls in a loop, so transient failures don't 

> really cause any noticeable problems.

> 

> I'd be open to suggestions if anyone has a better way to accomplish this 

> in alpine.

> 

> ...

> 

> Jason, thanks also for the tip about OfflineIMAP, and the links.  It 

> looks like it might be promising, except that for the time being i am 

> mostly just interested in output to an mbox file, which does not look to 

> be supported or planned:



imapsync, which I mentioned in another post, doesn't care. It syncs 
between imap servers, so in my case, one remote, one local using 
dovecot; and my dovecot writes to mbox.

It could be set as a cron job.

Of course, if you are not already using a local imap server it is an 
extra complication.

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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