Re: [Fetchmail-users] 'Modern Authentication'

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

Am 27.07.22 um 04:10 schrieb rbell--- via Fetchmail-users:
> 	Caltech says, 'Modern Authentication is the replacement for
> Basic Authentication.  Modern Authentication is a more secure method
> to access information and it is based upon OAuth 2.0 for
> authentication and authorization.  Modern authentication also supports
> Multi Factor Authentication.' and, 'POP and IMAP will no longer be
> supported'.
> 	Can I make fetchmail authenticate 'modernly'?

If Caltech are taking away/down POP3 and IMAP service, then fetchmail
will most likely become useless, no matter the form of authentication,
but it seems they got themselves confused.

If they keep POP3 and IMAP service but require OAuth2 then the question
will be if they just hand out the necessary IDs or if they want the
software reviewed and thereabouts, which I am not going to submit
fetchmail for because OAuth2 in practice means "you mail service
provider's specific local variant of OAuth2". The "next" branch in
fetchmail's Git repository has some support, and you may need to adapt
the Microsoft dialect of OAuth2 to your Caltech account, but this is all
depending on Caltech's local policies, and I cannot personally support it.

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Matthias Andree