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

[Lucio C. <lu...@la...>]

Not an outlook user but forced to be a gsuite user at work, so I passed 
through this already.

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024, Ian! D. Allen wrote:

> Yes, it is precisely because I use a GNU/Linux desktop exclusively that 
> I need a way to fetch messages sent to my legacy accounts on these 
> proprietary services that I don't actually use.

Can you instruct your "legacy proprietaruy service" to FORWARD all mail to 
another fetchmail-firendly provider ? This is one of the solutions I 
used.

> I don't own a cell phone, so using phone "apps" isn't an option.

I don't have a smartphone as well, but the reference to "app password"
does not imply phone apps. An "app password" (at least as defined by 
google) is just a dedicated password for the e-mail account different 
from the personal one, whjich csn be used by a generic Mail User Agent 
(e.g. alpine or fetchmail). They call "app" what we oldtimers call binary, 
program, executable, piece of software.

I have defined an "app password" for my gsuite account. This is an 
alternative to forwarding. Actually I use app password for occasional IMAP 
access. I could use it with fetchmail as well, but I fetch the bulk from 
the fetchmail-firendly provider where I forward all stuff.

It's a PITA, but it's viable (so far) to overcome the b**y OAUTH.


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