mutt, imaps and OAuth2

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Hello,

Sam Kuper (2022/08/04 10:07 +0000):
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 09:40:03AM +0200, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> > I am about to work for an organization whose e-mails are managed by
> > Google.
> 
> Commiserations.

Thanks. I was not very happy about that. :-)

> As a *temporary workaround*, maybe see if you can edit the
> GMail/GoogleMail settings so that a copy of each incoming email is
> forwarded to an email address you control that is hosted by a
> standards-compliant (and therefore Mutt-friendly) email hosting company.
> IIRC, the GMail settings interface has an option for this - or failing
> that, you can create a catch-all "filter" with a rule to forward the
> emails.
> 
> That will at least get your inbound mails into Mutt.

Thanks! It's good to have this solution in case others would not have
worked!

> (Perhaps, as an adjunct to that workaround, if you are lucky, you will
> manage to get outbound email working directly from Mutt via GMail, so
> that you can also *send* work emails from Mutt.)

Well for that I have an SMTP server with authnetication, which I expect
will accept to send my e-mails no matter their headers. At least, it has
been like this so far.

> Good luck!

thanks!

Best wishes,

Sébastien.