[Users] OAuth2 experience with non-gmail mail providers

[Dustin Miller]

On Mon, 2 May 2022 17:36:33 -0700
Geoffrey Leach <geoffleach.gl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any experience with the OAuth2 interface of email providers
> other than Google gmail?
> 
DM: Hi, Geoffrey. See the Claws OAuth2 FAQ page
(https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Oauth2) for how to set up
OAuth2 with Microsoft products (i.e. Outlook, Exchange). I haven't had a
chance to work through these instructions personally, but I'm assuming
they will work. Based on my current version 4.1.0 (Configuration - Edit
Accounts... - Edit - OAuth2 page - "Select ... Provider" drop-down
menu), it seems that the only other email provider currently supported
by Claws is Yahoo. I don't have personal experience in using Yahoo.

DM: The archives of this email list
(https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/index.html) are also a
good place to look for information on this and other things. I can't
remember if Yahoo was ever mentioned here, but I think at least one
user had asked about another email provider one or more times, perhaps
AOL? You can use the following string in one or more search engines to
search the archive:

site:lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users archive
		(where 'archive' is replaced by your search phrase)

(It would be worth your time to make a note of this as a helpful tool
for when you are looking for Claws-related information in the future.
These archives are a great complement to the documentation already
available on the Claws website.) You may need to try different search
engines / methods depending what you're searching for. I did some very
minimal testing with the above string (a search for 'aol' and a
separate search for 'email', with the following results:

* DuckDuckGo.com -- gave no results for either. Someone on this list
  recently mentioned that this used to work, but doesn't anymore. I'm
  not sure if they discontinued this feature or perhaps changed their
  syntax?

* Google.com -- gave results for both terms.

* StartPage.com -- gave results for 'email' but not for 'aol'.

DM: If there are one or more specific email providers that Claws
doesn't currently support and you would be interested in using them
with Claws, you could mention that on this list and perhaps also submit
an enhancement request to the issue tracker (after first checking to
make sure there is not already one submitted). If you have coding
experience, patches are welcomed, or if you can provide information on
how a particular provider requires OAuth2 to be set up, that may also be
useful to a developer if they choose to add support for them. Long
answer to a short question, but perhaps you or others will find
something useful in it. :) Cheers, ---Dustin