From: gene h. <ghe...@sh...> - 2024-09-20 09:25:28
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On 9/20/24 02:26, Ian! D. Allen wrote: > 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. Good, but will it reduce the spam and phishing from the first two of those sites? For 2 or 3 days maybe... Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis |