On 5 Jun 2020, at 23:55, Alexander Perlis <aper...@math.lsu.edu> wrote:
>> On Jun 5, 2020, at 2:50 PM, Steve Karmeinsky <st...@gbnet.net> wrote: >> >> If anyone can send me something in plain English that I can send to my >> contact at MS (he was my account manager when I was at Demon Internet and we >> licensed IE - long story), he’s quite senior now ... > > Microsoft's IMAP server outlook.office365.com advertises only the > non-standard XOAUTH2. Microsoft itself co-authored the RFC that subsequently > standardized that, with a small modification, under the name OAUTHBEARER, yet > Microsoft's server doesn't advertise the standard method. The mutt mail > client can speak the standard OAUTHBEARER, but hasn't been patched to speak > the non-standard XOAUTH2. > > Prior history on this topic: > http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-dev/Week-of-Mon-20200210/000555.html > http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-dev/Week-of-Mon-20200210/000558.html > http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-dev/Week-of-Mon-20200504/000720.html > http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-dev/Week-of-Mon-20200504/000722.html > > In summary, Microsoft knows about it. From Microsoft's perspective, since > Microsoft itself has not yet cut off basic auth support, lack of OAUTHBEARER > support is a low priority issue. On the other hand, some institutions have > already cut off basic auth, thus breaking their mutt users. At my university > I cannot use mutt to access Office365. I will again be able to do so once > Microsoft supports OAUTHBEARER, or when mutt supports XOAUTH2. Sent … UK based so prob won’t pick-up until tomorrow/Mon … Will revert with any reply Steve — NetTek Ltd UK mob +44 7775 755503 UK +44 20 3432 3735 / US +1 (650) 423 1390 social id stevekennedyuk Euro Tech News Blog http://eurotechnews.blogspot.com
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