[Users] Migrating account authentication from basic POP to OAuth2

Paul Rolland rol at witbe.net
Mon Dec 19 17:15:32 UTC 2022


Hello,

On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 17:11:56 -0000
Paul <paul at claws-mail.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 09:02:10 +0100
> Paul Rolland <rol at witbe.net> wrote: 
> 
> > My account is configured as POP, but where can I explain that I want to
> > switch from Basic auth to OAuth2 ?  
> 
> You are comparing two completely different things here.
> 
> Oauth2 is an authentic mechanism.
> Basic is the name of a Preferences page. (meaning Basic account
> information)

No, I mean "basic authentication with POP3", the "legacy one" that was
defined in POP3 RFC (User xxx, Pass yyy).
Sorry that the shortcuts I used are confusing with the configuration pages,
that was not intended. 

Best,

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