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

[grarpamp <gra...@gm...>]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:13 AM, Carlos E. R.
<rob...@te...> wrote:
> How do you prompt the human for response on a daemon?

Having spent only a few minutes looking at rfc,
did I miss that / is it a required element of all
implementations? What section of what doc
is it in?

> OAUTH support means asking the user for some response in a web dialog.
> Once that is done, it will work silently for several/many times, till
> one day it fails and again it prompts the user.
>
> That's how it works in Thunderbird.
>
> I don't see a daemon like fetchmail doing all that. It doesn't have
> access to X, for starters...

Well if a response is required that a script
cannot see and calculate, then some more
layers would need done. Or at least import
the resulting tokens from your own gui response
into fetchmail... like stealing cookies from browser
and loading them into wget.

What exactly are the nature of the prompts... captcha,
user / pass?

Can anyone list services that require this?