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

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

Am 07.10.20 um 19:00 schrieb Ranjan Maitra:
> 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.

I am not doing that, and the purpose of the existing 6.x.y branches is
compatiblity as we update y and if possibly also when updating x. There
may be minor features in 6.5.y.

7.x.y is for major changes.