[Users] Claws has stopped working with GMail in OAUTH2 testing mode

[Brian Morrison]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 20:26:00 +0100
"J.Sandillon @Orange" <j.sandillon at orange.fr> wrote:

>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : Users <users-bounces at lists.claws-mail.org> De la part de Brian
>> Morrison Envoyé : jeudi 9 mars 2023 19:38
>> À : users at lists.claws-mail.org
>> Objet : Re: [Users] Claws has stopped working with GMail in OAUTH2
>> testing mode
>> 
>> On Thu, 09 Mar 2023 08:15:34 -0800
>> sgeneris at comcast.net wrote:
>> 
>> > Yesterday, ALL OF A SUDDEN, it stopped working. Since nothing
>> > changed at my end, logic says something changed at Google's end and
>> > the error msg refers to Claws developers.  
>> 
>> The problem with Google services is that they operate according to
>> Google's rules, quite often violate RFCs and are generally provided
>> on a "use it as is or go away instead of asking us to make it work
>> properly" basis.
>> 
>> I don't know what you did or didn't do but Claws Mail has no
>> responsibility for trying to make something work that actually wants
>> the whole development organisation to pay the Google tax and stop
>> moaning. It's exactly similar to Microsoft and their "embrace,
>> extend, extinguish" approach to non-Microsoft things except that
>> Google appears to have multiple left and right hands so it's even
>> less coherent in many respects.
>>
> 
> Good evening, As mentioned I was trying to set CLAWS for a Hotmail account
> in POP mode. And I always had errors to send a mail (SMTP)
> I have since found the solution and I am making available to your
> community the 10 screenshots of the POP Mode settings.
> Thanks
> 
> Jean SANDILLON

I think this is supposed to go to the Claws list, but there were no
screenshots in the mail I received direct.

Some thread confusion no doubt, but I don't know quite how it
happened and I know nothing about Hotmail, especially in 2023.

-- 

Brian Morrison

                "I am not young enough to know everything"
                                                          Oscar Wilde