Re: [Fetchmail-users] Frontier (Yahoo) OAuth

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 21.02.2017 um 23:36 schrieb Hans Carlson:
> Is there any chance fetchmail supports OAuth now or in the very (very) 
> near future?

Not the faintest.
https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/message/34628292/

> Frontier, which uses Yahoo mail is apparently disabling all 
> authentication methods except OAuth (presumably OAuth2).  At least that 
> appears to be the case based on this message I received:
>
>    https://frontier.com/helpcenter/categories/internet/email/email-security-upgrade
>
> I've been using fetchmail for more years than I can remember and I'd 
> prefer to keep using it, but this message from Frontier/Yahoo appears to 
> indicate I'll no longer be able to use fetchmail if it doesn't support 
> OAuth.
Find a switch in your account settings that will let you use some more
traditional authentication scheme directly,
or find a switch they'll perfidiously have mislabelled "allow insecure
authentication methods" or such in a similar scary wording (Google and
Yahoo provide it and name it so) and set it so you can log in with
passwords.

Alternatively, perhaps Frontier permit you to set application-specific
passwords for mail, which might work along the lines laid out in
<https://johnlane.ie/gmail-fetchmail-is-a-less-secure-app.html>.

If there is no such switch, and you lose access to your mail, decide for
yourself on the consequences. Might have to do with changing e-mail
provider, or access provider.