mutt, imaps and OAuth2

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Dear Francesco,

Thank you, so much, for your response!!

Francesco Ariis (2022/08/04 12:27 +0200):
> Have you considered enabling 2fa and then adding an application-specific
> password?

I knew about app passwords but I stayed with the impression that they
gad been abandonned and that OAuth2 was the only way to go.

Apparently I was wrong and indeed, I enabled 2fa and could then create
an app password which I was able to use with mutt!

So, just to make sure I understand correctly: it is required that 2FA is
enabled so that app passwords work? Any insight on why this is so?
Because, to me, the two things look rather orthogonal.

One other thing I found disappointing is that the app password Google
generated for me was rather short, compared to what I would have come up
with. So I don't relaly see the point, except that okay, thi password
gies access only to my mails and not to the whole universe a Google
account is.

> I did that because I could not get OAuth2 to work

It really made my day. Many thanks for your assistance!

I think it'd be nice if this would be documented somewhere but I am not
sure where.

Best wishes,

Sébastien.