[GTALUG] Sane Email System?

[James Knott]

On 2022-03-03 8:18 p.m., Peter King via talk wrote:
> I've just been informed that "legacy authentication" is going to be
> disabled at the University of Toronto for my email account.  Well, I
> suspected something like this was in the works when they adopted MS Outlook
> 365+ as the mail server, but it still isn't welcome.

Actually, they're behind the times.  Email, in general, is switching to 
OAuth2 for security reasons.   If the server will work with Thunderbird, 
it will work with almost any IMAP (or POP3 if they're incompetent) 
client.  Even if you go elsewhere, you'll likely run into the same 
thing.  Both Google and Yahoo require OAuth2.  Also, they'll probably 
require encrypted protocols, SMTPS and IMAPS.  I have also used normal 
email apps with Exchange servers, as I do not like Outlook.  It has some 
really DUMB "features".  I haven't used Outlook 365.

BTW, I also don't care for using a browser to read email.