IMAP support for group inboxes

[anon73664359]

Yeah, will support for other email providers like Outlook and iCloud come sooner rather than later?

Oh, and that isn’t even counting lesser known email providers.

[mognet]

I agree this is the best option.

[trobiyo (Ismael Posada Trobo)]

Hi @martin,

Sorry if this was already asked, but could not find any reference on Meta.

According to:

@martin

Only Gmail is currently supported as an IMAP provider . We have some generic IMAP functionality but it is not guaranteed to work. Outlook online is our next big target for support.

Is it still under your plans to incorporate Outlook/Exchange Online for IMAP? If so, how Discourse will connect to Outlook/Exchange Online, giving the fact that MS is moving into the OAuth2 authentication direction ? (as per Authenticate an IMAP, POP or SMTP connection using OAuth | Microsoft Docs)

Cheers,
Ismael

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Sorry, we don’t currently have further improvements for IMAP support on our roadmap, nor do we have plans to add support for other providers at this time.

It turned out to be a far too complex piece with too many edge cases to worry about.

I recommend sticking with the simple to reason about POP3 integration.

[trobiyo (Ismael Posada Trobo)]

Hi Sam,

Many thanks for your reply. Indeed we will like to stick to POP3 if possible, but if I’m not mistaken, Discourse communicates with basic-auth with POP3.

According to MS, basic-auth will be phased out as of October 2022 (please see Basic Authentication and Exchange Online – September 2021 Update - Microsoft Tech Community - Starting September 1, 2022, we will remove the opt out option, and starting October 1, 2022, we’ll begin turning off Basic Auth in all tenants, regardless of usage.).

Hence, re-formulating my question. Is it under your plans providing Oauth2 authentication for the current POP3 mail protocol?

Thanks,
Ismael

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@trobiyo

but if I’m not mistaken, Discourse communicates with basic-auth with POP3.

We actually do SSL by default

discourse/discourse/blob/841c90044cd9065d3fd69043f68b0b27de8604b6/config/site_settings.yml#L1115-L1115

[Anders_Johansson]

Hi, I use iRedmail Server, I have no problem connecting to my IMAP server but can’t choose which mailbox to syncronize.

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Is this still supported and/or possible?

documentation tweak

@martin

allow staff to tag pms

This is now pm tags allowed for groups

Add Gmail to another email client - Gmail Help says

To keep your account more secure, Gmail no longer supports third-party apps or devices which require you to share your Google username and password. Sharing your account credentials with third-parties makes it easier for hackers to gain access to your account.

Instead, look for the option to “Sign in with Google,” which is a safer way to sync your mail to other apps. Learn about Sign in with Google.

So I guess the Google doesn’t want us to do this anymore?

Also, on the system where I set this up before on the group settings page, I click the “test” buttons and it claims SMTP and IMAP settings are valid but error logs show:

Unexpected error when checking SMTP credentials for group 42 (support). : OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError : SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 peeraddr=142.251.163.109:587 state=error: wrong version number