On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 03:08:03PM -0400, Myles Braithwaite 👾 via talk wrote: > I was having the same issues a year ago and basically gave up. I'm not > 100% sure if this will work for you but it magically started working for me. > > I switched my O365 account two-factor auth (they use SMS to transmit the > code, Ew) and had to create a bunch of app passwords[0] to be able to > connect with my main email client. Randomly one day decided to see if > this would work with fetchmail and lo and behold it did. > > I don't know why it worked or if something was disabled in that year but > it works now. > > [0]: The location where you generate new passwords is here: > <https://account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com/AppPasswords.aspx>
Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately, it didn't work. I tried representing the backslash in .fetchmailrc as "\92" which is the decimal escape ASCII code for the backslash. It failed, but, oddly, the logfile has the MS Office365 server reading the username with a double backslash. No idea why. (The same results with octal and hex codes for the backslash.) If you put in a single backslash, it vanishes. A double backslash remains a double backslash. A triple backslash becomes a double backslash. Quadruple remains quadruple. Quintuple becomes quadruple. And so on. Either fetchmail or Office365 (or both together) are doing something to that backslash that seems to be causing the problem. I can't figure out what, though. Arrgghh. I use Linux to avoid this sort of idiotic issue, not to have to batter through it. -- Peter King [email protected] Department of Philosophy 170 St. George Street #521 The University of Toronto (416)-978-3311 dept Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 CANADA http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/ ========================================================================= GPG keyID 0x7587EC42 (2B14 A355 46BC 2A16 D0BC 36F5 1FE6 D32A 7587 EC42) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7587EC42
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