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Maybe slightly O/T, but has anyone found a decent way to `git send-email` with email hosts that demand OAuth? (looking at you Outlook and Gmail)

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I think you could set up postfix to smtp forward to those services. So it could handle the oauth2 and you wouldn’t need to configure your client

For Gmail, you can use https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools/tree/master/go/....

I use an app password but https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/git-credential-email apparently supports OAuth with Gmail, yahoo and outlook

I tried this with Gmail and Outlook. Works flawlessly and also doesn't need to authenticate frequently. The Authen::SASL thing was a catch though.

git-send-email also has some quirks for Outlook which have been recently merged.

I use msmtp with a tool from the oauth2-tools repo to do the rotation token dance. Need to register your own app with Google though.

Generating app passwords for those would work.

Yeah, I use an app specific password with Gmail, like the setup suggested by https://git-send-email.io/#step-2

Exchange historically had a tendency to mangle emails sent through it (whitespace changes, line wrap, etc), which is obviously bad news for patchmails. I dunno if it's any better these days.

davmail supports smtp through outlook(365)

Yeah, I used DAVMail with Emacs+MSMTP+MPOP+notmuch for ages. Works really well, the only occasional thing I had to do was reauthenticate the token, which pops up in a browser window.

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