Re: After Gmail, Microsoft too...

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1) no one owes me an apology, I owe an apology for inadvertently answering o=
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2) Charles expands it correctly and davmail alliows OAuth and AFAIK Tenant I=
D adjustment.=20

3) it is not abandon ware. AFAIK it is sponsored and supported by the French=
 government in order to reduce somewhat dependence on MS , at least on the d=
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Peter
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> On 22 Oct 2022, at 16:16, Charles Cazabon <search-web-for-address@pyropus.=
ca> wrote:
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> =EF=BB=BFMarc Lobelle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Do you know how to do that with getmail ? Where to put this ID in getmail=
's
>> rc file ? How to have getmail's ID  whitelisted by microsoft ? Or may we
>> just use Outlooks ID ? What is this then ? After that, may we use our "ol=
d"
>> login and passwd ?
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> Reading what Peter forwarded (I think), what he's saying is:
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> (1) You run this DavMail Gateway program on some machine in your control. =
 It
> speaks to Exchange using whatever standard or proprietary protocols are in=
 use
> for mail, calendar, directory services, etc.  This is the only program tal=
king
> to the Microsoft backend, so *it* would be the one that needs to be regist=
ered
> with Azure.  I have no idea if this program actually supports that or not.=

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> https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
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> That page was updated a little less than a year ago, so it doesn't appear t=
o
> be total abandonware
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> (2) You then configure getmail to talk IMAP or POP to the DavMail Gateway
> instance you're configured.  That proxies your mail connections.  Microsof=
t
> doesn't know there's a different program behind DavMail, so there's no nee=
d to
> register it etc.
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> getmail's config would then just be a standard one.  I don't know if DavMa=
il
> would take care of the OAUTH2 authentication, or whether you would still n=
eed
> a helper app for integrating with getmail.
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> I could be wrong, but that's how I interpreted it:
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>>> I would think one way of dealing with this is to create a chain of davma=
il
>>> and getmail and leave the authentication and app ID to davmail.
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> Charles
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