Emailing
Email in the modern day with a reasonable email client and command line tools like msmtp and mbsync on Office 365, gmail and Yahoo!
It seems that some references are out of date and some providers no longer
require a client_secret
(Microsoft) which is interesting.
Email Proxying Application
To use OAuth2 with email providers like Microsoft, GMail and probably Yahoo an email proxy server can be configured. This solution works well for me and I have deployed it at work since Microsoft is removing support for app passwords (don't as me why, seems bonkers).
This requires Python and the required external libraries are minimal.
In emailproxy.config
:
[something@ms365hosted.domain.com]
permission_url = https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/authorize
...other things...
redirect_uri = https://localhost
client_id = 9e5f94bc-e8a4-4e73-b8be-63364c29d753
client_secret =
...other things...
The above seems to work well. client_id
taken from Thunderbird so you will
be asked if you want Thunderbird to have access to whatever.
When you have edited emailproxy.config you can run this:
$ python -m venv venv
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ python -m pip install -r requirements-core.txt
$ python emailproxy.py --no-gui --debug --external-auth
It will provide a URL when you make a request and you should paste the whole
response (including https://localhost
) after you have authorized the app.
Good luck!