[Alpine-info] fastmail

[Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2025, Barry Landy via Alpine-info wrote:


> Hi - can anyone help?

>

> I am experimenting with using Alpine to access Fastmail.

> I can get the setup done but when Alpine wants me to provide a password 

> whatever I try does not get accepted.

>

> My assumption is that the required password is the 16 character string 

> provided by the fastmail "new app password" facility but Alpine just keeps 

> repeatedly asking for a password.


I know that the fastmail people were working on OAuth2,
including standards for MUAs (eg alpine) to deduce what settings and
addresses to use, rather than have to hard-code them into Alpine
(Alpine 2.26 supports OAuth2 at GMail, Outlook, Yahoo and Yandex).

Unfortunately there seemed to be a lot of standards involved in this
and I never figured them out well enough to suggest what Eduardo
should implement.

*If* that is the problem you are having,
figuring out what to hard-code for Fastmail might be simpler.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew at aitchison.me.uk