[sylpheed:37280] Re: Microsoft dumping app passwords and basic authentication by September 16th, 2024: OAuth, Sylpheed 8 beta 1 and Windows 7, ¿works?

[G.A. L.F.]

It would be nice if Sylpheed 3.8 could be updated to fully support OAuth2.
I have not been looking forward to migrating my email off of Google Mail
because I have everything set up exactly the way I like it.  However, I'm
also not willing to give up using Sylpheed as it is the mailer-agent of my
choice for a very long time.

On the subject of other mail providers, does anyone know of any email
providers that support wildcard domain aliasing?

By this I mean, for example, suppose your domain is *mydom.com
<http://mydom.com>*, I have it setup so that *anything at mydom.com
<anything at mydom.com>* goes into my main inbox -- that is, any string to the
left of the '@' sign is all aliased to one inbox.  I have been using this
wildcard aliasing feature for more than 20 years already, which means that
I have hundreds, maybe over a thousand aliases used right now, from
everything to bills, and subscriptions, and even more importantly (as I'm
laid off right now and I've been using it for a very arduous job search)
prospective employers.

I was thinking of migrating to FASTMAIL, but I heard they did a round of
layoffs recently, so I am unsure of their stability.

Cheers,
-GALF



On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 5:14 PM Anton Shepelev <anton.txt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Javier:
>
> > Does OAuth+Sylpheed 8 beta 1 works on Windows 7? Do anyone
> > of you use Windows 7, OAuth and Sylpheed 8 to tell your
> > experience? Does OAuth require an external modern browser
> > to work on Sylpheed?
>
> What is Sylpheed 8? The latest version is 3.8 beta:
>
>    https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/download.html
>
> > Well, Microsoft is joining the club of OAuth **ONLY**
> > authentication.  No even app passwords. Date: September
> > 16th, 2024.
>
> Their mission is to kill e-mail and all good traditional
> clients.  I am not with them.
>
> > But with Microsoft..., maybe I don't have that easy, with
> > one of my oldest mail addresses there.
>
> Look into IMAP synchronisers:
>
>    https://imapsync.lamiral.info/
>    https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync
>
> > This time, I doubt that change to another provider will
> > help.
>
> Yet it may, try:
>
>    https://account.mail.ru/signup
>    https://yandex.com/support/mail/reg.html
>    https://mail.rambler.ru/
>
> or any of the independent shell services, which are so evil
> as the large providers:
>
>    https://freeshell.de/
>    http://www.tilde.club/
>    https://sdf.org/
>    https://blinkenshell.org
>
> Unlike the larger players, these do not require your phone
> number.  And remember: e-mail is for exchangeing letter, not
> for storing gigabytes of attachments!
>
>