Re: mbsync with XOAUTH2 SASL mechanism

[Joshua Branson]

Peter Polidoro <peter@polidoro.io> writes:

> I am trying to setup an oauth2 email account to work with Emacs using mbsync
> (from the isync guix package) and mu4e.
>
> I setup oauth2ms to fetch the token and setup mbsync to use oauth2ms for the
> PassCmd and XOAUTH2 for the AuthMechs.
>
> Now when I run mbsync, I get the error:
>
> IMAP error: selected SASL mechanism(s) not available;
>   selected: XOAUTH2
>   available: SCRAM-SHA-1 SCRAM-SHA-256 GS2-IAKERB GS2-KRB5 GSSAPI    
> GSS-SPNEGO
>  DIGEST-MD5 EXTERNAL OTP CRAM-MD5 PLAIN ANONYMOUS
>
> I found instructions online saying I need to install the xoauth2 sasl plugin
> from https://github.com/moriyoshi/cyrus-sasl-xoauth2
>
> What is the proper Guix way of getting mbsync to work with XOAUTH2? Should I 
> try
> to package cyrus-sasl-xoauth2 or modify the isync package or something else?
> Thanks!
>

Man this sounds complicated!  haha.  I use isync too...but I do the
really really lazy (insecure) way via ~/.authinfo.

Joshua