From: Lucio C. <lu...@la...> - 2024-09-24 20:17:49
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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. -- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Corti 12 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A middle rank researcher at end career is not rich but is in the top 5% of the Italian income tax taxpayers. Does it not sound strange ? |