Request for Help with mbsync and XOAUTH2 for Office365

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  • cyrus-sasl-xoauth2

    XOAUTH2 mechanism plugin for cyrus-sasl

    Unfortunate things 2: it seems that even once you have cyrus-sasl installed, there might not be a standard, widely-distributed XOAUTH2 plugin. The one I found referenced the most often and ended up installing myself was here. It took me a lot of fiddling with the configure.ac file to get it to install the plugin to /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib, because, again, Apple does not want me to do things the default Linux way, because of reasons.

  • oauth2ms

    @harishkrupo has posted over on r/emacs and helpfully described in even more detail on github the steps to follow to get mbsync working with office365 and has written a python script that handles getting the token from the identity server and putting it into a format that mbsync can use. Crucially, he explains how to set up the azure app that the token is generated for. Really, this guide made a lot of things clear that I had been absolutely muddling through previously.

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