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From: Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Google and "fetchmail" + "ssmtp"
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:50:47
Message-Id: 25140.25593.722728.424564@tux.local
1 Nikos,
2
3 On Thursday, 2022-03-17 19:04:04 +0200, you wrote:
4
5 > ...
6 > I don't use fetchmail (just an email client), but fetchmail 7 apparently
7 > supports oauth2. It's masked in portage because it's still alpha
8 > (net-mail/fetchmail-7.0.0_alpha9-r1).
9 >
10 > And then read:
11 >
12 > http://mmogilvi.users.sourceforge.net/software/oauthbearer.html
13 >
14 > Which also seems to contain Gentoo instructions. Apparently, you don't
15 > need to apply the patches for fetchmail 6 if you instead unmask and
16 > emerge the 7.0.0 alpha version.
17
18 Really interesting reading. Thanks for the pointer. And also thanks to
19 the other responders.
20
21 Sincerely,
22 Rainer