Re: [Fetchmail-users] OAUTH2 Confusion

[Héctor A. <hab...@gm...>]

I recommend you check the message sent by Matthias Andree to this list on
March 4th. It says among other things:

"There is no such thing as a roadmap if you are looking for planned
release dates.
This is currently a volunteer spare-time project, not a
commercially-organized one, and apparently some big tech are trying to
squeeze out the small ones. More below.

Fetchmail 6.5 should arrive on a scope of months though, albeit without
OAuth2. It will cut off support for systems not compliant to C99 and/or
the Single Unix Specification v3.

For fetchmail 7 the release date "depends" on circumstances I have not
planned yet. After 6.5."

My recommendation based on experience: If you can, keep your GMail address
working by forwarding messages, but use any alternative and affordable
email service for your GMail address. A service that gives you options
rather than forcing you to use oauth2 or telling you that fetchmail will
not work after certain date because it's a "less secure app".

Hector.

El jue, 24 mar 2022 a las 11:59, Dennis Putnam (<da...@be...>)
escribió:

> Am I correct that fetchmail 7 is only in alpha stage? If so when is a
> stable release scheduled?
>
> 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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