Re: Planned Google authentication changes

On Fri, 4 Mar 2022, joe a wrote:

> Received the email below from Google (links deleted).   What does this mean 
> for Fetchmail?  A quick search turned up "not much".

Fetchmail 7, which is still in alpha (but, I believe, distributed with
Gentoo Linux) has OAuth 2.0 support built in.

Fetchmail 6 has third party patches which add (X)OAuth 2.0 support
   http://mmogilvi.users.sourceforge.net/software/oauthbearer.html
- patches for the latest releases are also available on my website:
   https://www.aitchison.me.uk/fetchmail/
(I am about to improve the landing page).

With fetchmail 7 in alpha and fetchmail 6.5 in beta,
it would be useful to see a roadmap of future fetchmail development.

> IIRC I had to enable "use less secure" in gmail for it to work with 
> fetchmail.  Perhaps  I was just in a hurry then and lazy now?

X(O)Auth 2.0 authentication *is* more complex than traditional methods
and documentation could be better.
I actually get gmail to forward my email to my real account.

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