Re: Is there any 'xoauth2' login wrapper support for v5 of current getmail for ms o365 in the works?

On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 23:31:07 -0800
dmacdoug <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 12:06:45PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > Urs Rau <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
> > > 
> > > But for that we would need to find a xoauth2 ‘plugin’ that supports ms o365
> > > with modern authentication as well as running on an old and end of life
> > > version of python.
> > 
> > I don't actually use xoauth2, but getmail has some support for it.  The
> > getmail-gmail-xoauth-tokens helper script it uses should still work?  I don't
> > know for sure as I don't use Gmail.
> > 
> > If you find xoauth2 support is broken, please report it.  No one else has
> > mentioned it IIRC.
> > 
> ...
> > 
> > > Has anybody worked out a way to expand the xoauth2 functionality from Stefan
> > > Krah to work with ms o365 and not just gmail? 
> > 
> > No one has contributed support for it, I think.  The docs ask people who can
> > make it work with other providers provide that info to me for inclusion.
> > 
> > Charles
> 
> I'm wondering if the OP or anyone else has made any further headway on
> using XOAUTH2 with Getmail to download email from MS Office365 IMAP server 
> since this inquiry was posted or, alternatively, found it to not be possible?
> 
> I tried it a couple of years ago without success, but now my university is
> going to require it starting Jan. 20th, so if I can't make it work I'll
> have to find some alternative way to get my email.

This project looks quite promising, if it actually works as described:

https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy

I don't currently use OAuth for email, so I haven't tried it.

> Additionally they are going to require two factor authentication using a
> company called Duo.  I'm not sure how this could be made to work with
> getmail, so perhaps all is futile.  Any observations would be appreciated.

Presumably something similar to the above could be written for any
(open) 2FA system, but I don't know if one actually exists.

Celejar