Re: After Gmail, Microsoft too...

Marc Lobelle <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I understand what to do with Gmail. However , my institutional mail
> (University of Louvain, Belgium) has been outsourced to Microsoft, and
> Microsoft too changed its authentification rules: from yesterday morning on,
> my getmail cannot any more fetch my mail @uclouvain.be.

Okay, that's a pain.  They've turned off app passwords, too - is that
Microsoft doing so for all users/clients, or is it just a policy set by your
university?

>    If you used to fetch your mail programmatically from your own app,
>    this remains possible but the app will have to support OAuth and to
>    be registered on the Azure portal. UCL admin consent may then be
>    required and may take up to 1-2 weeks for approval.

It's possible to integrate getmail with a service that uses OAUTH2; see the
Gmail integration as an example.

But this "register your app with the Azure portal" is trickier.  The doc page
I found is here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/quickstart-register-app

... and that makes it sound like *I* have to get an Azure account and register
getmail as an application?  That doesn't make sense to me.  Maybe it means the
more obvious thing, which is that someone in your AD domain needs to register
it as an allowed app, not sure.

Because if it requires me to get an Azure account, you're unfortunately out of
luck.  Not gonna happen.

Can you clarify with your university's help desk whether this is their policy
choice, and what has to happen to enable "modern auth" for a 3rd-party email
application?

Charles
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