<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 11:28 PM Steve Litt <<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Eduardo Chappa said on Sun, 3 Dec 2023 15:39:47 -0700 (MST)<br>
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>On Sun, 3 Dec 2023, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:<br>
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>> [...]<br>
>> I am quite concerned about the moves of gmail moving away from IMAP<br>
>> sometimes next year. I am seeking solutions ... <br>
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>IMAP will continue to be supported by Gmail, what will not be<br>
>supported is that you use username/password authentication. Instead<br>
>you will have to set up Oauth2, which you can do with Alpine.<br>
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Can Fetchmail do oauth2? Does any Fetchmail substitute (getmail, for<br>
instance) do Oauth2?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes.</div><div><br></div><div>Also I use offlineimap which syncs back and forth to a local Maildir folder structure.</div><div><br></div><div>This is compatible with many clients but also allows you to use a local imap daemon </div><div>which can be faster for access (caching, indexing for searching speedups etc).</div><div><br></div><div>I use the Maildir patches for alpine as this is slightly faster than direct IMAP access </div><div>it also doesn't need you to auth with anything, as offlineimap is doing that.</div><div><br></div><div> HTH,</div><div><br></div><div> - Damion</div></div></div>