[sylpheed:37335] Re: Microsoft (Hotmail) and how you lose access to mails through an IMAP mail client when you switch to the stupid OAuth2

[Anton Shepelev]

Javier:

> But the whole process (rely on an external browser) and
> all the hassle... Nah, this is not for me.  The purpose of
> a desktop mail client just gets defeated with OAuth.

Right.  I do not use any mailboxes that /require/ OAuth, and
it may be a good idea to tell them /why/ we leave them in
favour of better providers.

> I'll give a try with Seamonkey in the next version, that
> they say it will support Hotmail/Outlook with OAuth and,
> if it doens't work either, I just give up of this OAuth
> thing and of my old mail accounts.

You can migrate your correspondence.

> By the way, how the heck do you deal with the 3.7.x and
> above flat interface?

I have never noticed any serious interface changes.  Here's
what it looks like on my Winodws XP:

   https://freeshell.de/~antonius/img_host/sylpheed2.png

> That is the main reason I never upgraded from 3.4.3. I
> just can't deal with it. Also the small headings, the very
> ugly font rendering. Argh.

Sylpheed is based on GTK, which is highly customizable via
configuration files.  Check your config, compare what has
changed in it between 3.4.3 and 3.7.x .