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Description
Microsoft is turning off Basic auth for SMTP, IMAP and POP among others.
Is there a way to enable/use OAuth2 for the SMTP and IMAP for Gitlab Emails?
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/basic-authentication-deprecation-in-exchange-online-may-2022/ba-p/3301866
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/214900
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the SMTP and IMAP email configuration and the linked GitLab issue 214900, then compare them with Microsoft's OAuth2 requirement. Done means there is a clear, supported way to use OAuth2 for GitLab email delivery through both SMTP and IMAP.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- authentication, backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100