support for Office365?

[raf]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 12:05:36PM +0100, ed neville <ed-mutt at s5h.net> wrote:

> On 2020-06-26 14:20-0400, Andrew D. Arenson wrote:
> > My organization is moving to Office365 and have decided, sadly, not to 
> > support IMAP.
> > 
> > Anyone have insight in how mutt might still be able to connect to 
> > Office365?
> > 
> > A co-worker has been investigating a project called davmail, which 
> > provides a gateway that sort of translates from Office365's other 
> > protocols to IMAP, as they use a (non-mutt) IMAP mail client.
> > 
> > So, I'll follow up with using that intermediary if need be, but would 
> > love to hear that mutt could talk directly to Office365 without using 
> > IMAP.
> 
> Just out of interest, does anyone know /why/ organisations, in their 
> rampant desire to outsource to the cloud disable IMAP and SMTP protocols 
> whilst doing that? Is something to be feared? Surely MS cares only that 
> people pay the monthly rent on Office 365?
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Ed http://www.s5h.net/

One reason is MFA. Where I work, we are often receiving
emails from the hacked email accounts of our clients.

cheers,
raf