Re: [Fetchmail-users] XOAUTH2 needed for hotmail.com after September 162024

[gene h. <ghe...@sh...>]

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.
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