| From: Peter King via talk <[email protected]>
| Well, more exactly, Microsoft Exchange Server insists on authentication being
| through XOAUTH2.
I don't know what XOAuth2 is. Googling gets me things that would take too
long to read.
If XOauth2 is the same as OAuth2 (I'm sure it isn't), this might be a good
resource (less than 2 years old):
<https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/mutt-email-oauth2>
| I far prefer the use of a console
| client (mutt) and to keep my email off the server and on my main computer.
I don't do this, so this is just guess work and suggested research
directions. I run my own mail server and mail goes in and out of my
house using SMTP. I then read and write mail with alpine(1), another
console client.
One could use fetchmail to fetch from imap and deliver to a local MUA.
- you'd need to figure out how to get fetchmail to use XOAuth2.
Google results suggest that this has been done, perhaps with a
patch to fetchmail.
- you'd have to set up local mail (Mail Delivery Agent) in some way.
- reading (local) mail with your choice of MUA (mutt) is easy.
- I don't know how you would handle outbound mail: that's not
fetchmail's job.
+ can you still send mail with your mutt setup? If so, I guess this
subproblem is solved.
+ you'd like a copy to be local
+ your MUA probably has a config for an SMTP server. Can exchange
accept that? Surely with some unknown-to-me authentication.
| I
| suppose I should see whether there is now some ready solution for mutt, and
| then figure out how to migrate all the email since switching out of
| Thunderbird and into my mutt archives
There are a few ways of storing mail in a user's files. Mutt can
probably use a couple. maildir and mbox are common.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox>
That second claims Thunderbird uses the mboxrd variant of mbox.
| -- but too many battles at the moment
| getting hardware to work to take time out for reconfiguring software.
Yeah.
| If anyone knows a straightforward way to do either of these things (get mutt
| to work with Exchange and migrate from Thunderbird to mutt) I would be very
| pleased to hear about it!
I hope these notes help.
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