[CentOS] Microsoft deprecation of basic authentication centos 7

Fri Oct 14 23:09:55 UTC 2022
Chris Schanzle <christopher.schanzle at nist.gov>

On 10/14/22 12:31 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have a server out there running centos 7.
> I installed fetchmail to monitor an email inbox - has worked for years.
> Microsoft deprecated basic authentication so fetchmail is not working any
> more.
>
> Anyone else run into this ?
> fetchmail 6 does not support oauth.
>
> Any thoughts on how to update - get this working again ?
> its nearly impossible  to change the OS - as the box is not local to me.


Microsoft is accepting short-term enforcement delays (until Dec 31 if I recall) if your company will submit the request.

Consider looking at a generic proxy like https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy

I tried it on EL8, but had troubles getting the GUI to appear in the systray unless until in my python virtenv I added:

   pip install PyGObject # also installs pycairo

Worked for me with Thunderbird -- we can't use built-in OAUTH2 due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1685414

Good luck!