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

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

>>> Can anyone list services that require this?
>>
>> Gmail does, but can be disabled.

Then it is not *required*.

If people know of services actually starting to
*refuse* AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN, then the various
OAuth forms might be useful to look into.

>> You can look at Thunderbird code to
>> find out what they do. I don't remember what the dialogue said, though,
>> it pops up rarely. I think it is done in javascript, maybe they have a
>> document on it.

> Guys, of course it is technically doable [... not gonna happen]

I can't see any problem with fetchmail providing a shellout
to the operations, users providing that, patches, whatever.
Especially since I suspect it is not actually dependant on human
brainpower interaction, but I'd have to look further to know that.

Efforts there would also depend on prevalance and impact
of any *required*'s that may exist as above.

> Frontier

If reading right, maybe frontier is farming as proxy out to yahoo as
virtualhost,
so try connecting with PLAIN LOGIN directly to yahoo's imap/pop/submission
servers specifying whatever your "frontier mail" user@dom:pass is. Unless
yahoo has firewalled off their virtual to only frontier's proxy, it should work
and you can bypass frontier as middleman.
Or try logging into 'frontier.yahoo.com' as they say, whatever that is.

What you say 'expires in 2018' could be frontier generating
that app specfic from yahoo on your behalf using your user:pass
to do it until yahoo bans that.

I've really not looked at this so don't read much in me yet.

You probably don't want to put much dependancy on your
ISP provided email, you could move residence where they
do not exist, they could be bought, stop service, etc.
Best is your own portable domain housed with email
literally anywhere on the net for under $25 or so per yr.