<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Héctor Abreu via Ale said on Sun, 24 Apr 2022 10:08:01 -0400<span class="gmail-im"><br>
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>I use neomutt with fetchmail everyday. I experienced some problems with<br>
>OAUTH2 recently but managed to find a workaround to avoid using that<br>
>authentication method.<br>
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Please share your workaround. I use fetchmail to download from three<br>
gmail address every 3 minutes, and would love to hear how I can address<br>
this later on, when non OAUTH2 clients become pumpkins.<br>
<br>
SteveT</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The fetchmail users' email list recently discussed 3 options to address the OAUTH2 problem:</div><div><br></div><div>1) fetchmail version 6 is supposed to take care of OAUTH2 with the aid of third party patches. Some users have expressed it works, some users have expressed it stops working after a week or so.<br></div><div><br></div><div>2) fetchmail 7 is supposed to take care of OAUTH2 without the need of any third party patches... but it's in Alpha and there is no release date for Beta yet. I think users have expressed mixed results experimenting with it, too.</div><div><br></div><div>3) You can keep your current version of fetchmail as is but add a mail service that won't force you to use OAUTH2.</div><div><br></div><div>I chose option 3 in order to keep all my GMail addresses working with fetchmail and neomutt. I just find it easier and it just works:<br></div><div><br></div><div>1) I chose an affordable email service that won't force me to use OAUTH2. I picked <a href="http://noip.com">noip.com</a> because it offers a free email address, and POP3 service for $9.95 per year, so I chose the 1 year plan. There are other good mail services like <a href="http://posteo.de">posteo.de</a> and <a href="http://mailbox.org">mailbox.org</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>2) I setup all my GMail accounts to forward to the free email address I created at my new mail service.</div><div><br></div><div>3) I setup fetchmail to pull emails from the new email service instead of GMail directly. I distribute one local Inbox for each forwarded GMail address using maildrop, but I guess some people do everything in one single Inbox.</div><div><br></div><div>4) I setup one .muttrc for each local forwarded GMail Inbox, obviously with "set from" using the GMail address value but "set smtp_url" using the new email service value.</div><div><br></div><div>The only minor problem I'm having is that I forgot how to configure in order to avoid the frequent problem of my contacts telling me "Oh, your email went to my Spam folder" the first time they receive an email from me with this setup, but then they just whitelist me and the problem is gone. I think it's because their email servers complain about my emails with "set from" using GMail value but my actual email server is a different one.</div><div><br></div><div>I think I will eventually get rid of "free" services like GMail and Yahoo and their email addresses, and keep my new email address with a service that gives me choices rather than forcing me to use what they want.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Hector.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El mié, 27 abr 2022 a las 19:27, Steve Litt via Ale (<<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Héctor Abreu via Ale said on Sun, 24 Apr 2022 10:08:01 -0400<br>
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>I use neomutt with fetchmail everyday. I experienced some problems with<br>
>OAUTH2 recently but managed to find a workaround to avoid using that<br>
>authentication method.<br>
<br>
Please share your workaround. I use fetchmail to download from three<br>
gmail address every 3 minutes, and would love to hear how I can address<br>
this later on, when non OAUTH2 clients become pumpkins.<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
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