Re: Is it possible to integrate getmail with an Office 365 mail server using third-party 2FA authentication

On 2019-05-28 04:40, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Charles

Some (or probably: most) companies who use O365 block POP and IMAP 
because these protocols do not support 2-factor authentication and are 
therefore deemed to be not secure enough for use with O365. When you put 
all your email "in the cloud", I suppose you want as much security as 
possible.

Best regards,
Patrick