Re: IMAP bastardized by Microsoft?

Geert Stappers <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 01, 2023 at 11:26:03AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> 
> > I'm afraid I have no personal experience with it,
> > as I don't have an o365 account to test with.
>  
> Not sure if that should be read as
> 
>    Those who are convicted to using bastard IMAP
>    should provide me with such an account
>    and further resources to get it supported in getmail.

No.  I do not have one, because I do not want one.  They probably have some
free tier I could sign up for if I wanted an account for testing, but I'm not
interested in using proprietary services.  I'm not spending my limited time
for working on free software to make Microsoft's attempted lock-in more
attractive.

> See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Exactly.

Charles
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