On Tue, 17 Jun 2025, Barry Landy via Alpine-info wrote:
Hi - can anyone help?
I am experimenting with using Alpine to access Fastmail.
I can get the setup done but when Alpine wants me to provide a password
whatever I try does not get accepted.
My assumption is that the required password is the 16 character string
provided by the fastmail "new app password" facility but Alpine just keeps
repeatedly asking for a password.
I know that the fastmail people were working on OAuth2,
including standards for MUAs (eg alpine) to deduce what settings and
addresses to use, rather than have to hard-code them into Alpine
(Alpine 2.26 supports OAuth2 at GMail, Outlook, Yahoo and Yandex).
Unfortunately there seemed to be a lot of standards involved in this
and I never figured them out well enough to suggest what Eduardo
should implement.
*If* that is the problem you are having,
figuring out what to hard-code for Fastmail might be simpler.
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
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