On May 27, 2019 9:40 PM, Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Ranjan Maitra <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > By "REST or GRAPH API", are you saying that retrieving mail happens via a
> > > proprietary protocol?
> >
> > Yes, apparently
>
> Ugh, if that's true, that's really ugly -- and more like the MS of old, with
> attempted lockin etc.
>
> > It seems Office365 will not make this easy because they support neither IMAP
> > nor POP3 but only their proprietary protocol.
>
> If they don't support POP3 or IMAP4, then getmail will need some fairly major
> surgery to support retrieving mail from it. You can try adding this yourself;
> I'm unlikely to put a lot of unsponsored work into supporting a proprietary
> Microsoft interface.
>
> However... a quick search turns up lots of pages saying Office365 *does*
> support POP3 and IMAP, with TLS. e.g.
> https://warwick.ac.uk/services/its/servicessupport/email/liveemail/faqs/popimap/
>
> Here's MS themselves saying you can use POP or IMAP:
> https://support.office.com/en-us/article/pop-and-imap-account-settings-cb41d2b8-98cb-4ab2-ad60-218349f37e2e?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
>
> So I think you are on the wrong track. If a POP or IMAP client can access the
> mail, getmail can retrieve it.
>
Thanks! We also used to have that approach until this 2fa came in. Thanks again! Best wishes, Ranjan
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