On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 08:49:09AM -0400, Jos? Mar?a Mateos wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 08:26:42PM -0700, Tom Fowle wrote: > > As more isps and email providers require two factor authentication, I > > hope mutt will support this security system! > > Doesn't mutt already "support" this? I use Fastmail with 2FA enabled. > What I do then is to generate an app-specific password which is the one > I use in the mutt configuration. There's not much to support, it's just > a different password, unless there's something I'm not getting right. > > Cheers, > > -- > José María (Chema) Mateos > https://rinzewind.org/blog-es || https://rinzewind.org/blog-en
Jose, In what little I've read, I'd thought one needed to authenticate with two passwords, but I'm probably wrong. Thanks, I'll try it if it becomes necessary. Tom Fowle