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

[Hans C. <fo...@gm...>]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2017, Matthias Andree wrote:

> 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.

I can't find any switch like that.  The Yahoo "Account Settings" link 
takes me to a Frontier specific page with very few options.  BUT, 
there does appear to be another option....

> 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>.

THIS ONE.  Thank you for the suggestion and that link.

When I originally saw the "App Password" option on the Frontier page, I 
thought it was somehow related to OAuth. In other words, I thought you had 
to obtain an "App Password" in order to use OAuth.  But I guess that's not 
the case.

The downside to this option (assuming I can get it to work) is it also 
appears to be a temporary solution.  There's a note on the Frontier page 
where I request the "App Password" that says:

   ... this option is subject to expire in 2018.

So, I guess that will help for now, but I'll still need to come up with an 
alternate solution eventually.

And just to clarify.   All I need to do from a fetchmail perspective is 
replace the current entry in my .fetchmailrc:

   ... user 'us...@fr...' there with password 'XXXXXXXXX' ...

with the newly generated "App Password":

   ... user 'us...@fr...' there with password 'APP PASSWORD' ...