On 2022/08/19 09:08, Gellner, Oliver via mailop wrote:
> Hello,
> IMAP, SMTP etc are still being supported with Office365. What gets
> disabled is Basic Auth for some services. Microsoft announced the
> decomission of Basic Authentication three years ago and all tenant
> administrators have been notified several times in the meantime about
> this change. Originally the change was planned for 2020, but due to
> interoperability issues it got postponed until 2022. So while I'm no
> Microsoft fellow I don't think anyone should be caught unprepared.

The interoperability issues have not been fixed though.

> If you need POP3 or IMAP4 access with Basic Auth, then you can either
> put a proxy or other email server in between which speaks Basic Auth
> on one side and OAuth on the other.

That proxy will have the same issue as seen by other tools accessing the
OAuth2-only services. Hideously complicated configuration, having to keep
tokens refreshed, etc.

It would seem sensible for operators who want to require something
stronger than basic authentication to have a way to use TLS with client
certificates as an alternative to OAuth2, it would be a lot more
straightforward to handle on the client side. Unless they have other
motives. It's not really surprising to see this exact thing mentioned
on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

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