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Anybody have good guides for using mutt with Gmail and Microsoft 365? The modern authentication requirements make configuring it onerous IIRC.

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After gmail recently greeted my mutt/IMAP request (which had worked perfectly for over a decade!) with "login failed", i've embarked upon the slow winding road to getting mutt to use OAuth2, or is it OAUTHBEARER?, for gmail. Out of a dozen or so hints spanning the last couple of years (many which depend on having python2 still around), i'd humbly promote these links to best hints:

[1] http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jacobd/posts/2022/03/configure-mut...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/backtickbot/comments/kyuq11/httpsnp...

Please post any better sites you discover. It really is an overly server specific mess.

The other option, per a couple sites like:

https://gist.github.com/bnagy/8914f712f689cc01c267

I set up application passwords, then configure a gmail rc file ~/.muttrc.gmail with the important bits:

  source "gpg -d ~/.pass/gmail-mutt.asc|"
  set from="ME@gmail.com"
  set spoolfile="imaps://imap.gmail.com/INBOX"
  set folder="imaps://imap.gmail.com/"
  set postponed="imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Drafts"

and the GPG encrypted file has the following:

  set imap_user="ME"
  set imap_pass="APP_PASSWORD"
  set imap_idle="yes"
  set smtp_url="smtps://ME@gmail.com:APP_PASSWORD@smtp.gmail.com:465/'

I wrapped a simple gmail command to run: mutt -F ~/.muttrc.gmail

GPG pops up a password prompt, then mutt does it's thing and works just fine.

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