[Users] claws-mail with OAuth2 IMAP O365

Colin Leroy-Mira colin at colino.net
Thu Jan 11 13:38:32 UTC 2024


January 11, 2024 at 2:07 PM, "Paul" <paul at claws-mail.org> wrote:

Hello,

And happy new year :)

> That doesn't answer Philippe's question at all. He said Claws Mail was not
> acceptable by the dumb IT people, and wanted to "make O365 believe that I use
> Thunderbird". AFAIK (as someone who purposely avoids ever using OAUTH2) this
> is possible by using thunderbird's client id and client secret. IIRC, this
> what you used, David, on your very first version of your patch adding OAUTH2
> support. Please explain to Philippe how he can do that.

By the way, would that make us bad people to snatch Thunderbird's client IDs and
secrets and just ship with the same? Would Mozilla people bother to rollover
their credentials if they noticed? :)

After all, browsers lie in their User-Agent headers too.
-- 
Colin


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