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

[Milt Epstein]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2023, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:


> 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.

[ ... ]

I've found this page useful for setting up fetchmail to do oauth2:

https://mmogilvi.users.sourceforge.net/software/oauthbearer.html

It has info for setting it up to work with both gmail and office365,
although the info for gmail is more complete.  (This page is easily
found if you search on "fetchmail oauth2".)

Milt Epstein
mepstein at illinois.edu