Re: [Evolution] Yahoo changing mail access in October?

[Steve T <stevetucknott yahoo co uk>]

On Wed, 2020-08-26 at 10:30 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-08-26 at 09:00 +0100, Steve T via evolution-list wrote:
> > Is anyone aware of any changes made within Evolution to handle this?
>
>       Hi,
> nothing happened on the Evolution(-data-server) side yet, you might
> need to use the application specific password for the time being, as
> the notification mail from Yahoo! says.
>
> The problem is that the interface for OAuth2 application registration
> on the Yahoo! site doesn't offer the mail (and CalDAV and CardDAV)
> scopes, thus there is no way to obtain such token. I checked that
> yesterday, after receiving a similar mail from the Yahoo!.
>
> I found the corresponding Thunderbird bug and there's a hope. It seems
> they've been able to ask the Yahoo! admins to add the mail scope for
> them, thus I wrote a query to the same address yesterday. No idea when,
> or even whether at all, they'll respond, because Thunderbird managed to
> do it two/three years ago. In any case, be sure this will be addressed
> in case the Yahoo! admins will approve and give the needed scope(s) for
> the Evolution(-data-server) users.
Thanks Milan/Andre ... I'll wait and see what happens.

Steve T