Office 365 requires 'modern authentication' using OAUTH2

[geerlingguy]

See: https://www.example-code.com/python/office365_imap_oauth_authentication.asp

The code I'm currently using deals with normal IMAP authentication (username + password). Microsoft is now requiring OAUTH2 tokens to authenticate to their servers.

[geerlingguy]

Someone else working on this on Stack Overflow, too: https://stackoverflow.com/a/60773366

[geerlingguy]

Possibly we could use an 'App Password'? https://stackoverflow.com/a/73908966

[geerlingguy]

We might just try doing email forwarding to another account where we can turn on 2FA and set up an App Password.

[geerlingguy]

Meh, that was not a fun experience, and App Password doesn't seem to allow 'basic auth' with it and IMAP, I kept getting LOGIN failed from Python.

So I'm back to working on using the o365 Python library.

But ran into this problem tonight: My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account.