Better tools for kernel developers

Posted Feb 7, 2020 15:56 UTC (Fri) by jgg (subscriber, #55211)
In reply to: Better tools for kernel developers by pbonzini
Parent article: Better tools for kernel developers

I've been working on this for a while now, and am getting close to keeping my mutt & exim kernel workflow scheme working post-oauth-apocalypse.

https://github.com/jgunthorpe/cloud_mdir_sync

I have mail inflow working using OAUTH and a REST transport from my Office365 and GMail accounts.

While it seems trivial to say 'oh just use OAUTH' it actually turned out to be quite difficult to wrangle all the peices properly.

I haven't put the last parts in to send email yet, but internally the tool does have the bearer token to authorize SMTP. It needs plumbing into the MTA. Maybe next month. Still waiting for Office365 to actually have a way to send raw email with OAUTH, as MS promised to finally do 4 months ago. Maddening.

But yes, setting this all up is expert level stuff, not something you could expect someone who wants to just use git send-email to sort out. I'm mildly hopeful that someone will build a git plugin that can send email through gmail/o365 fully natively with 0 configuration.. At least for gmail sending email via REST is fairly straightfoward once you get the OAUTH token.

Better tools for kernel developers

Posted Feb 7, 2020 16:23 UTC (Fri) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> But yes, setting this all up is expert level stuff, not something you could expect someone who wants to just use git send-email to sort out.

...but it only takes an expert like you to figure it out once, and then it's a lot simpler for other folks to replicate it.

> I'm mildly hopeful that someone will build a git plugin that can send email through gmail/o365 fully natively with 0 configuration.

That might be a natural progression of the work you're doing right now, and I suspect it would be very well received..