On 1/20/24 21:26, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
A few years ago I found a package that would proxy IMAP into an Exchange server. If I remember correctly it was called davmail. It made some of the problems with a clients insistence on Exchange go away.
Well, more exactly, Microsoft Exchange Server insists on authentication being through XOAUTH2. The problem when they began insisting on that was that there was no ready way to configure mutt to do that, and while there might have been technical workarounds I didn't have the time to figure them out, since I was already without email and couldn't afford to miss any. So I found out that Thunderbird would work and threw that on for the time being. The time being is now many months later. Thunderbird seems okay if you want a gui client for web-based email. I don't. I far prefer the use of a console client (mutt) and to keep my email off the server and on my main computer. 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 -- but too many battles at the moment getting hardware to work to take time out for reconfiguring software. 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!