[Users] claws-mail with OAuth2 IMAP O365
Paul Rolland
rol at witbe.net
Thu Jan 11 15:16:48 UTC 2024
Hello,
On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:43:49 +0000
Colin Leroy-Mira via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:
> > The fact that doing so is trivially easy demonstrates just how weak a
> > system of identification the client ID is.
>
> Yeah indeed! although one drawback of doing that would be that the OAuth
> prompt displayed to the user would be something along the lines of
> "Authorize Mozilla Thunderbird to access your email?", and I could see
> that being a bit counter-intuitive to our users.
Having that as an option to "save" users who can't have their IT allow
Claws would probably be a nice way to do it, without too blatantly using
TB's ClientID :D
That would also also to add a small warning message to inform users that
the prompt would mention TB instead of Claws.
Regards,
Rol
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