On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 at 12:31, Roger Munford via Hampshire <hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > > However it has stopped working and it appears that the authentification > method used "LOGIN" is no longer supported. > > It is a nice small family company and I would like to help. > > I am resigned to having to getting the updated mail component but I am > having hdifficulties finding out what mathod would keep Hotmail happy > and what extra will have to be done to make the whole process work. Up > to now they only needed a password and username. >
Hi, I have had to do something similar recently. I use thunderbird to access a hotmail account via POP3. Previously it used username/password, but I have had to switch thunderbird to using "oauth2" While thunderbird already supports it, it is quite a lot of work to implement. oauth uses a web page to do the authentication. I.e. You try to login, it redirects you to a web page to enter your username/password and then it remembers that for a while and you don't need to access the web page every time. The reason it is quite a lot of work to implement, is because you now need to implement a mini web browser, so it can display the redirected web page and take the username/pass input. thunderbird has implemented the web page, that pops up the first time you restart thunderbird after configuring it for oauth2. Kind Regards James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Manage subscription: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG website: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
