Re: Gnus, Oauth2, & nnimap-authenticator

[Leo Butler <Leo.Butler@umanitoba.ca>]

On Mon, Jan 06 2025, "Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Response below/inline for email Leo Butler wrote:
>> (original email sent  6 Jan 2025 at 16:13)
>> 
>> I had to make a similar adaptation in 2022. I kept notes, including how
>> to configure davmail and Gnus, which are here:
>
> That's an excellent set of notes!  Thank you.  From memory, I did pretty
> much the same (except for pop versus imap).
>
>> Note that I am using imap, which is quite slow, while Eric Fraga has
>> reported that the speed with pop3 is tolerable.
>
> Just to confirm: pop access (from memory) seems about the same as it was
> without davmail, preceding the need for multi-factor authentication.  I
> never did try imap.  But speed was never the goal: being able to access
> my email at all (from gnus) was the actual aim.

Hi Eric,

Re: speed.

I used Gnus+Exchange+imap for ~5 years before having to deal with
oauth2. Exchange was always slow (gmail seemed 2-5 times faster). With
the one fiddle I mention in my notes, imap access via davmail was about
the same speed as before the change-over--which confirms your
impression.

I did fail to mention one thing in the notes: emails that I save are
saved back on the Exchange server. That is for purely historical
reasons.

Best regards,
Leo