[Fetchmail-users] XOAUTH2 needed for hotmail.com after September 16 2024

[Ian! D. A. <id...@id...>]

Is fetchmail version 7 with XOAUTH2 stable enough to release?

>From Microsoft "POP, IMAP, and SMTP settings for Outlook.com":

     Outlook.com requires the use of Modern Auth / OAuth2.  Basic auth
     is in the process of being deprecated from the Outlook.com service.

>From Microsoft on September 12, 2024:

    Update your sign-in technology before September 16th, 2024 to maintain
    email access.

    The safety and security of your information is top priority for
    Microsoft. To help keep your account secure, Microsoft will no longer
    support the use of third-party email and calendar apps which ask you
    to sign in with only your Microsoft Account username and password. To
    keep you safe you will need to use a mail or calendar app which
    supports Microsoft’s modern authentication methods. If you do not
    act, your third-party email apps will no longer be able to access
    your Outlook.com, Hotmail or Live.com email address on September 16th.

Failing excerpt from my "fetchmail -v hotmail" after September 16:

    fetchmail: POP3< +OK The Microsoft Exchange POP3 service is ready. [...]
    fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
    fetchmail: POP3< +OK
    fetchmail: POP3< TOP
    fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
    fetchmail: POP3< SASL PLAIN XOAUTH2
    fetchmail: POP3< USER
    fetchmail: POP3< .
    fetchmail: POP3> USER us...@ho...
    fetchmail: POP3< +OK
    fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
    fetchmail: POP3< -ERR Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
    fetchmail: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
    fetchmail: Authorization failure [...]

Google is still letting us use USER/PASS authentication.

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