On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 12:31:23PM -0600, Alexander Perlis wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2020, at 12:31, Kevin J. McCarthy <ke...@8t8.us> wrote:
> > [...] Mutt already has OAUTHBEARER support [...]

> But instead of waiting for Microsoft to make the almost trivial change
> to support and advertise OAUTHBEARER on their server, which would be
> the correct long-term solution here, the short-term compromise would
> be for Mutt to recognize XOAUTH2. The technical differences are minor,
> described in our prior discussion on that topic:

>   https://www.mail-archive.com/mutt-dev@mutt.org/msg13782.html

This seems practical to me (as someone who may soon have to use
Office365 again :/).

Given that mutt itself follows some expired or never-ratified standards
(like Mail-Followup-To), I don't know that dying on the hill of
standards compliance is the way to go.

w

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