On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 15:26:23 +0000 Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Jan 2022 15:19:27 +0000 > "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > > Hello Jeremy, > > >but other servers that use OAuth2 - notably Microsoft ones - > >regularly revoke users' access tokens and the users currently have > >to set those > > Not using oauth myself, I'd failed to do more than simply glance at > some of those messages as it' not really of interest to me. Having > just read a few in more of those messages in depth, that certainly > seem to be the case. What a palaver. The cynic in me says they're > doing this to discourage non-preferred software from being used. > That's not cynicism, it's realism. Microsoft alone has been doing this kind of thing for decades. Case in point: when I switched from Thunderbird to Claws-Mail, I had to sign into my Google account and okay the use of this "new" email client, before I could fetch my gmail mail in Claws-Mail. Including two factor authentication on my cell phone. The only way I knew to do that was because my wife had had to go through it earlier on her Mac. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com
