[Alpine-info] fetchmail and oauth2 - was Re: Seeking someone who..?

[Andrew C Aitchison]

On Sun, 3 Dec 2023, Steve Litt asked:


> Can Fetchmail do oauth2?


Literally yes, though you need either developmental version 7,
or third-party patches for version 6.
However Matthias Andree has not been as successful as Eduardo in finding
a way through the hoops to make it work with particular providers
and has given up on the politics, threatening to remove oauth2 from
the development version.


> Does any Fetchmail substitute (getmail, for instance) do Oauth2?


Getmail 5.6
https://www.bytereef.org/howto/oauth2/getmail.html

Getmail6, which IIRC is a fork of getmail, not a new version:
https://getmail6.org/configuration.html

https://shallowsky.com/blog/tech/email/gmail-api-oauth2.html
suggests that the getmail-gmail-xoauth-tokens script used above
can be used independently of getmail, so it might be the way to get
fetchmail through some of the hoops.

I haven't tried it, but
https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy
is supposed to interpose between an OAuth2 MTA and a non-OAuth2 MUA.


> If not, this dispossesses people like me, who download email messages

> independently of their email client.

>

> So once again I ask, if you have the power to make the decision, do

> you really want to jump through all the hoops Gmail puts in front of

> you?


GMail is not my main email account, so I can avoid all these issues by
getting gmail to forward my email to my main account.

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