On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 12:28:20PM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 Aug 2020 at 22:50, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > THat is rather terse -- could you spell out your concern carefully?
> > Who is doing what?
> 
> Microsoft:
> 
>         "Today, we are announcing that on October 13th, 2020 we will
>         stop supporting and retire Basic Authentication for Exchange
>         Active Sync (EAS), Post Office Protocol (POP), Internet Message
>         Access Protocol (IMAP), and Remote PowerShell (RPS) in Exchange
>         Online. This means that new or existing applications using one
>         or more of these API’s/protocols will not be able to use Basic
>         Authentication when connecting to Office 365 mailboxes or
>         endpoints and will need to update how they authenticate."

FWIW, I had both mutt and fetchmail working against an Exchange server
with NTLM (yuck!) authentication. No idea whether Microsoft plans to
(or has, already) phase out NTLM.

Cheers

Microsoft "boiling frogs since 1975"

 - t