On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 06:26:01PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 10:13:00AM -0500, ben lamothe wrote:
> > I've noticed from the mbsync man page that mbsync has sasl support, and I
> > also understand that XOAUTH2 is a valid sasl auth mechanism, but I am
> > unclear how to configure mbsync to make use of that mechanism through sasl.
> > I can't find any documentation or guides about how to set this up with
> > mbsync specifically.
> > 
> AuthMech XOAUTH2
> 
> there are at least two plugins availbable:
> https://github.com/sweetums/SASL-OAuth
> https://github.com/robn/sasl2-oauth
> 
> however, i never tried myself, and it may very well not work.
> 
i looked into this somewhat. while i see no fundamental reason why it
would not work, xoauth is a really bad match for a command line
application. the manual work involved in setting it up is prohibitive,
and i see no reason why anyone would do that.

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