Hi, I am asking this question here because of the sheer breadth and depth of knowledge on this mailing list.
My mail so far has been handled by mutt (sylpheed/claws-mail in the middle), both of which I like and am comfortable with, having used one of them ever since I started using linux in the nineties (I remember using floppy disks and then CDs to install -- what a breeze it is today). So I have a large email corpus stored in Maildir++ folders (mutt handles these with ease, therefore I switched back despite claws-mail/sylpheed's superb search abilities which is mutt's weakness in my view). However, my university IT decided to move to MS 365 with OAUTH2 authentication and force everybody to it. However, they appear to allow evolution (whether this is by omission or someone among their large army still uses it, we will likely eventually find out) and I am able to use it to get the tokens that make it possible to access and refresh from the gnome keyring -- this happens under the hood. The IT folks have managed to scare the administrators enough about the pitfalls of registering any (perhaps no more than five out of perhaps 50 users campus-wide) apps in entra ID , even though the evolution settings do not appear to be unversity-specific. They only communicate to me through them (using chatGPT-generated buzzwords) so all my technical arguments and proposed suggestions and alternatives are lost. Personally, I find evolution a bit too feature-rich for my needs, and even somewhat tedious (being old school, I like looking under the hood and so I prefer settings where I can edit a plain-text configuration file). Now, I understand that mutt has mutt_oauth2.py has very detailed descriptions of what and how to go about getting these tokens but they do not work for me. (Not being very knowledgeable about this, I wonder if it is because the default setting in evolution is: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/nativeclient and all approaches described appear to use the browser.) Anyway, my question is if it is at all possible to access these evolution tokens in the keyring for use with mutt/neomutt/sylpheed/claws-mail/getmail6/fetchmail/whatever and use them. So, if something like this were possible, I would still run evolution once in a while to get new tokens issued, but use these other receiving and sending email agents. Any other option I could try? I have spent over three weeks on this, but have not been able to land a solution. (Of course, it is so unnecessary given the plethora of easy options apparently generally available.) Thanks in advance. M L -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
