Re: [Fetchmail-users] Setting Up OAUTH2 Support for Fetchmail and Postfix

[Ranjan M. <ma...@em...>]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 18:39:41 +0200 Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> wrote:

> Am 07.10.20 um 06:51 schrieb Ranjan Maitra:
> > According to the site, that may be dated, but fetchmail has oauth2 support from fetchmail7. Will it be available soon?
>
> Ranjan,
>
> that depends on how leniency of your definition of "soon".
>
> First we will have a 6.5 release branch, and that has not yet happened,
> so I expect that 7.x will be a matter of 2021, but if you are running it
> from the up-to-date "next" branch in Git (available on Gitlab and
> Sourceforge), feel free to file bug reports.
>
> Regards,
> Matthias

Thanks,

I have used fetchmail 7 without much of a problem (or something that I have noticed, anyway). Is it possible to backport the patch for oauth2 in the  6.x.x releases? I prefer using the rpms released by the distributions.

Ranjan