On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 at 12:31, Roger Munford via Hampshire
<hampshire@???> 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
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