| From: Peter King via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | Well, more exactly, Microsoft Exchange Server insists on authentication being | through XOAUTH2. I don't know what XOAuth2 is. Googling gets me things that would take too long to read. If XOauth2 is the same as OAuth2 (I'm sure it isn't), this might be a good resource (less than 2 years old): <https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/mutt-email-oauth2> | I far prefer the use of a console | client (mutt) and to keep my email off the server and on my main computer. I don't do this, so this is just guess work and suggested research directions. I run my own mail server and mail goes in and out of my house using SMTP. I then read and write mail with alpine(1), another console client. One could use fetchmail to fetch from imap and deliver to a local MUA. - you'd need to figure out how to get fetchmail to use XOAuth2. Google results suggest that this has been done, perhaps with a patch to fetchmail. - you'd have to set up local mail (Mail Delivery Agent) in some way. - reading (local) mail with your choice of MUA (mutt) is easy. - I don't know how you would handle outbound mail: that's not fetchmail's job. + can you still send mail with your mutt setup? If so, I guess this subproblem is solved. + you'd like a copy to be local + your MUA probably has a config for an SMTP server. Can exchange accept that? Surely with some unknown-to-me authentication. | I | suppose I should see whether there is now some ready solution for mutt, and | then figure out how to migrate all the email since switching out of | Thunderbird and into my mutt archives There are a few ways of storing mail in a user's files. Mutt can probably use a couple. maildir and mbox are common. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox> That second claims Thunderbird uses the mboxrd variant of mbox. | -- but too many battles at the moment | getting hardware to work to take time out for reconfiguring software. Yeah. | If anyone knows a straightforward way to do either of these things (get mutt | to work with Exchange and migrate from Thunderbird to mutt) I would be very | pleased to hear about it! I hope these notes help.