[Alpine-info] OAUTH Profile for Open Public Clients

[Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info]

There is a new ietf draft intended as a public way for mail clients and
servers to interoperate when using OAUTH, written by Neil Jenkins of 
fastmail:

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-jenkins-oauth-public-00.html

Currently Alpine have had to code the details of Microsoft, Google and 
Yahoo OAuth authentication separately, which does not scale.
This draft is intended to allow any MTA to use OAUTH with any MUA.

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For those of you who can access the mailop list, Brandon Long of GMail
explained some use cases where he considers OAUTH more secure than plain 
IMAP. These don't sound like the sort of scenarios where alpine would be 
used, but may be ones that GMail have to worry about:
     https://list.mailop.org/private/mailop/2024-July/028714.html

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew at aitchison.me.uk