support of two factor authentication?

José María Mateos chema at rinzewind.org
Tue Jun 12 12:49:09 UTC 2018


On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 08:26:42PM -0700, Tom Fowle wrote:
> As more isps and email providers require two factor authentication, I 
> hope mutt will support this  security system!

Doesn't mutt already "support" this? I use Fastmail with 2FA enabled. 
What I do then is to generate an app-specific password which is the one 
I use in the mutt configuration. There's not much to support, it's just 
a different password, unless there's something I'm not getting right.

Cheers,

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