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  • Outlook token keeps expiring

    From John Levine@johnl@taugh.com to comp.mail.pine on Wed Nov 1 10:29:10 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.mail.pine

    I'm running alpine on a Mac, compiled from current source.

    To access a mailbox at Microsoft, it does an OAUTH login that goes to
    a web browser, lets me log in there, and then returns a token to
    alpine, which alpine can use for subsequent logins.

    That all works fine but in the past week or so, the token seems to expire immediately, so I can read my mail once, but every subsequent time I
    have to log in again which is rather a pain. Has anyone else seen this?
    I have not changed my copy of Alpine or as far as I can tell, anything else. The only thing different is that I am usually in New York and this week I
    am in Germany, but the login works fine and MS has lots of users in Europe.
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  • From Eduardo Chappa@chappa@washington.edu to comp.mail.pine on Wed Nov 1 19:57:03 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.mail.pine

    On Wed, 1 Nov 2023, John Levine wrote:

    That all works fine but in the past week or so, the token seems to
    expire immediately, so I can read my mail once, but every subsequent
    time I have to log in again which is rather a pain. Has anyone else
    seen this? I have not changed my copy of Alpine or as far as I can tell, anything else. The only thing different is that I am usually in New York
    and this week I am in Germany, but the login works fine and MS has lots
    of users in Europe.

    I do not know what is happenin here. All I can tell you is to run alpine
    using the command

    alpine -d http

    to see the transaction of Alpine with the server. See if it is the server expiring the refresh token, or if it is Alpine expiring the token. When
    Alpine is running in the above form, repeat the problem, quit alpine, and
    take a look at the file ~/.pine-debug1 to see the transaction of Alpine
    with the server.

    Your .pine-debug1 file will contain sensitive information. Remove it after
    you use it.
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    Eduardo
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  • From John Levine@johnl@taugh.com to comp.mail.pine on Sun Nov 5 21:02:11 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.mail.pine

    It appears that Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> said:
    On Wed, 1 Nov 2023, John Levine wrote:

    That all works fine but in the past week or so, the token seems to
    expire immediately, so I can read my mail once, but every subsequent
    time I have to log in again which is rather a pain. ...
    anything else. The only thing different is that I am usually in New York
    and this week I am in Germany, but the login works fine and MS has lots
    of users in Europe.

    Now I'm in Czechia and it works again. Maybe it's German privacy law,
    maybe it was just Microsoft being Microsoft.
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    Regards,
    John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
    Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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