Google tells me that getmail and mutt can talk oauth2. Have you tried that?
Looks a bit clunky. David On Thu., Mar. 3, 2022, 20:18 Peter King via talk, <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > Hello! > > I've just been informed that "legacy authentication" is going to be > disabled at the University of Toronto for my email account. Well, I > suspected something like this was in the works when they adopted MS Outlook > 365+ as the mail server, but it still isn't welcome. > > Up to now, I've been able to use mutt and getmail for all my needs; I run a > daemon that picks up (and then deletes) email from a variety of servers > (University of Toronto, GMail, and so on) onto a single computer. There > I apply all the filters, spam protection, sorting into various inboxes, > and so on. To read email I just ssh in from any computer anywhere and run > mutt. All configurable with nice text-based scripts. The email files are > automatically backed up and sychronized to other computers, too. When I'm > out of town I have the mail be downloaded/deleteed manually, and I have > full fallover capability, so if one machine is offline I can switch to > another without any hiccups. > > But it looks like that is all going away, since Microsoft only supports > what they call "modern" email clients, and on Linux only Thunderbird. > > I could switch. But then rather than the fetch-and-store model, which has > worked fine over the years, I would either have to change to a view-in-a- > browser model (and so have to be running a GUI locally and store all my > email somewhere else out of my control), or chuck my university email > account and set up something else. > > At the moment I'm really inclined to do the latter. I'll just set up some > way of forwarding all my email to some text-based *NIX server somewhere > that is happy to let me run scripts to deal with email. But maybe I'm not > being fair to the former alternative. I have *no* experience with any of > the "modern" email clients, and have been stubbornly clinging to the plain > ASCII text as how email should work. Maybe there are perfectly reasonable > email clients these days with powers I know nothing of. > > (I am currently teaching a few courses at UCLA and was forced to use their > webmail system, run by Google, and I have to say I despise it: graphical > for no good reason, with limited search/sort capabilities, threading of old > messages not clearly visible, and so on.) > > Any advice, suggestions, hints? War stories? Ways to thwart the powers > that be? Thanks in advance. > > -- > Peter King peter.k...@utoronto.ca > Department of Philosophy > 170 St. George Street #521 > The University of Toronto (416)-946-3170 ofc > 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 > --- > Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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