[Alpine-info] O365 XOAUTH2 via fetchmail
Carlos E. R.
robin.listas at telefonica.net
Thu Apr 28 17:36:46 PDT 2022
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On Thursday, 2022-04-28 at 23:22 +0200, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2022, Steve Litt wrote:
>
>> I would agree with the preceding except for one thing: All email clients
>> suck, and you never know when you're going to have to change email
>> clients.
>
> "not all but most of them" (this is a pun in Italian "tutti no ma buona
> parte", attributed as a reply of cardinal Caprara to Napoleon, when the
> latter asked whether all Italians are thieves. "ma buona parte" sounds the
> same as "ma Buonaparte" ... and Napoleon was born in Corsica when this was
> under Genua, and he had stolen a lot of masterpieces).
:-)
> I had to change my email client only once, long ago, from IBM Rice Mailer to
> Alpine (from pre-Internet to SMTP) and was satisfied with both (unlike past
> and present alternatives). I see no reason to change unless the way mail is
> *delivered* changes.
Netscape on Win 95 to Alpine on Linux and Netscape. Plus Exchange on a
corporate account, Outlook on another...
...
>> :-) Now what's not to like about DKIM, DMARC, OATH2, and all that other
>> stuff designed to make email inconvenient so people will switch to
>> facebook?
>
> Not in my name :-( (or No pasaran!)
>
> If the institute Gsuite (which is currently my main e-mail feed, via ssh from
> home) moves to OATH2 forbidding fetchmail AND imap, I'll guess I'd move at
> least my private mail to some other provider, and forward the official one to
> it.
Forwarding can also have interesting mishaps ;-)
Like the final destination thinking that the forwarded mail is spam and
bouncing it, and you getting the reports from the bounces.
>
> I would also not be displeased with running my own SMTP/MX at home, if I'd
> understand how to get a static IP instead of a CGNAT DHCP to get a domain of
> my own.
No, no way with CGNAT, unless getting an IPv6 address instead. Or with a
tunnel.
>
>> I like having my 20+ years of emails not depending on which email client I
>> happen to use.
>
> I have stuff since 2003 online (locally) in mbox folders, from 1993 on CDs in
> mbox, and earlier in IBM 'NOTEBOOOK' format (also plain text ... converted
> from EBCDIC to ASCII long ago :-)
>
>>> I hope imap lives forever.
>> Me too.
>
> +1, and alpine too
>
>
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
(from openSUSE 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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