Tim, Thank you for this.
On Thu Jun04'26 04:41:48PM, Community Support for Fedora Users wrote: > On Wed, 2026-06-03 at 09:26 -0500, M L via users wrote: > > Anyway, my question is if it is at all possible to access these > > evolution tokens in the keyring for use with > > mutt/neomutt/sylpheed/claws-mail/getmail6/fetchmail/whatever and use > > them. So, if something like this were possible, I would still run > > evolution once in a while to get new tokens issued, but use these > > other receiving and sending email agents. > > That *may* not be possible... If their system works like others I've > had to deal with, when any mail client tries to connect to their server > it determines *what* client that is, and expects the right credentials > for that client. > > e.g. I had to help an elderly lady with accessing her mail with Telstra > on her laptop and on her phone. Each mail client needed its own unique > credentials. They could tell whether it was her phone or laptop, and > which application it was. And it would not allow duplicate passwords > between any of them. > > It was a right pain to get it working, not helped by their support > staff being unaware of these requirements. They could get one thing to > work for her, then when they tried to get another thing to work, it'd > kill access to the prior thing. It took some experimentation on my > behalf to determine the problem, and an annoying amount of time using > their tedious web interface for setting up app passwords and verifying > each thing. The only thing it was slack about was one password for any > web browser (probably the worst application, security-wise, to trust). > > > Any other option I could try? > > If fetchmail can access their server (it supports quite a variety of > protocols), you could use it to drag in your mail. The mainline fetchmail does not support oauth2 so I was thinking of using getmail6. (I believe that fetchmail 7 supports it since 2019 or so, but the main fetchmail developer appears to not be keen on it and I would not like to have the hassle of tracking these releases: Fedora ships with fetchmail mainline.) > Other than that, I don't know if mutt allows you to fake data so it can > pretend that it's one of their allowed mail clients. Right, that is what I was wondering if it was at all possible. Perhaps I will ask on the mutt mailing list. There is another possible option that I have come across. The first is https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy which seems to run a local proxy server and is meant for clients that do not understand how to interact with oauth2 (like fetchmail mainline, I guess). But I can not figure out if it can take the tokens from the keyring, while I guess pretending to be evolution. There is also https://github.com/pdobsan/oama which appears to store tokens in a keyring, but figure out insructions for mutt/neomutt (or getmail6) to take it from there. Thanks for your thoughts! M L -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
