Re: New draft rfc: OAuth Profile for Open Public Clients

On Sun, 12 Jan 2025, Matthias Andree wrote:

> How can I NOT have the impression that this is all going in the wrong 
> direction? If you see fetchmail as a set-up-and-forget piece of embedded 
> software, that entire OAuth 2 thing is nothing but reinventing wheels so 
> heavy that you need corporations to handle them.

I agree that, as users. we should do what we can to stay away of 
OAuth-based providers, either: (a) using other mechanisms like "app 
passwords" if available (may work both with fetchmail and mail clients); 
(b) rerouting mail from OAuth-based providers to fetchmail-friendly IMAP 
providers (or abandoning OAuth-based providers); (c) running one's owm 
e-mail host on a VPS (I haven't yet tried that).


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