Re: [Fetchmail-users] OAUTH2 Confusion

[Dennis P. <da...@be...>]

On 3/24/2022 10:27 AM, Héctor Abreu wrote:
> According to what I read in this list, the Fetchmail version that 
> takes care of oauth2 is version 7. Version 6 can do it with third 
> party patches.
>
> I know that every user, circumstances and needs are different, and I 
> am not familiar with very technical aspects of email services, so in 
> my particular case this is what I'm doing, just in case it's helpful 
> to another fetchmail user: Since I only need to keep my GMail address 
> receiving and sending messages but I don't consider urgent to keep up 
> with oauth2, I just followed the advise shared in this list about 
> finding an alternative email service while keeping the GMail address 
> and not being forced to use oauth2, nor receiving threats from Google 
> about not allowing "less secure apps" to work (they coined the 
> expression "less secure"). In this list they mentioned very affordable 
> services like posteo.de <http://posteo.de> and mailbox.org 
> <http://mailbox.org> ; I'm using noip.com <http://noip.com> which is 
> also affordable and it's working for now. I'm only using my GMail 
> address to appear in the "From: " field and to receive and forward 
> messages to my new email service (POP3).
>
> Short story: "Free" email services like GMail or Yahoo are not for me 
> anymore, I prefer to tell GMail to just forward, I keep using the 
> GMail address for now and pay a little bit for another email service 
> that gives me choices instead of forcing me to complicate my life and 
> waste my time. I will eventually get rid of my GMail address, too.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Hector.
>
> El mié., 23 de marzo de 2022 10:32 a. m., Dennis Putnam 
> <da...@be...> escribió:
>
>     I'm a little confused about support for OAUTH2. Is there a version
>     that
>     does indeed support OAUTH2? I am among those that are stuck using
>     gmail
>     and we have until May 30, to get this resolved. What is the current
>     status? TIA.
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Thanks for the reply. I will try to get fetchmail 7.