On Sun, 3 Dec 2023, Steve Litt asked:
Can Fetchmail do oauth2?
Literally yes, though you need either developmental version 7,
or third-party patches for version 6.
However Matthias Andree has not been as successful as Eduardo in finding
a way through the hoops to make it work with particular providers
and has given up on the politics, threatening to remove oauth2 from
the development version.
Does any Fetchmail substitute (getmail, for instance) do Oauth2?
Getmail 5.6
https://www.bytereef.org/howto/oauth2/getmail.html
Getmail6, which IIRC is a fork of getmail, not a new version:
https://getmail6.org/configuration.html
https://shallowsky.com/blog/tech/email/gmail-api-oauth2.html
suggests that the getmail-gmail-xoauth-tokens script used above
can be used independently of getmail, so it might be the way to get
fetchmail through some of the hoops.
I haven't tried it, but
https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy
is supposed to interpose between an OAuth2 MTA and a non-OAuth2 MUA.
If not, this dispossesses people like me, who download email messages
independently of their email client.
So once again I ask, if you have the power to make the decision, do
you really want to jump through all the hoops Gmail puts in front of
you?
GMail is not my main email account, so I can avoid all these issues by
getting gmail to forward my email to my main account.
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