sending email from command line using hotmail

[mike marchywka]

On 2/16/25 12:32, Thomas Kaiser wrote:
> On 16.02.25 16:58, mike marchywka wrote:
>> On 2/16/25 04:59, Thomas Kaiser wrote:
>>> On 16.02.25 02:07, Mike Marchywka wrote:
>>>> Is there some simple way to send emails from the command line without sendmail?
>>>> I was using neomutt but can't get it to work with hotmail any more and gave
>>>> up on the oauth2 stuff. Thunderbird words but I can't find a headless
>>>> mode to get to work. I can use the marionette or debug port as I do in other
>>>> cases with chrome but can't find any documentation although I could connect
>>>> with wscat I can't do anything.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Check out:
>>> i
>> I guess the real problem is oauth2 so I can use hotmail and probably others.
> Check this:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Msmtp#OAuth2_Setup
>
Thanks that ultimately gave me the info I needed to piece together something

that works. Apparently it is ok to use another client ID so they 
suggested thunderbird

which I found and copied. Then, using smtpsend.c test program with libetpan,

I modified the code to call their oauth2 crap and load a file containing 
the acces token

obtained using mutt_oath2.py .

./a.out -f "marchywka at hotmail.com" -u marchywka at hotmail.com -v access -s 
smtp.office365.com -S -p 587 marchywka at hotmail.com < foo

Rube Goldberg must be alive and well at MSFT ROFL.  Unfortunately the 
mutt_oauth2.py script

generates a url that needs to go into a js enabled browser to get the 
code then used

to get the access token.  It doesn't seem to work with lynx or wget. 
Someone needs to tell

MSFT that computers actually can AUTOMATE data processing instead of 
just creating

jobs for tech support and catered seminar speakers.

If I can figure out how to automate this without chrome, it turns out 
most of thunderbird seems

to be written in js or similar, I am all set.


I haven't gotten much research done but I'm getting good at hacking.

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