• "Need admin approval" for Office 365

    From Brandon Jewett-Hall@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 12 16:00:41 2021
    I'm trying to authorize Alpine to access my university email account. When I go through the OAuth2 "Outlook (Device)" flow for IMAP in my browser, after signing in, I arrive at a screen that says

    "Need admin approval
    Alpine
    unverified

    Alpine needs permission to access resources in your organization that only an admin can grant. Please ask an admin to grant permission to this app before you can use it."

    https://snipboard.io/0AfsOH.jpg

    Does anyone know what I should tell my IT department to help them resolve this? I searched around and found
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/client-developer/legacy-protocols/how-to-authenticate-an-imap-pop-smtp-application-by-using-oauth

    Is Alpine already registered with the "Azure Active Directory", or is this something that each Office 365 domain/customer has to do afresh?

    Thanks,
    Brandon

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  • From Eduardo Chappa@21:1/5 to Brandon Jewett-Hall on Fri Mar 12 19:12:56 2021
    On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, Brandon Jewett-Hall wrote:

    I'm trying to authorize Alpine to access my university email account.
    When I go through the OAuth2 "Outlook (Device)" flow for IMAP in my
    browser, after signing in, I arrive at a screen that says

    "Need admin approval Alpine unverified"

    Brandon,

    just tell your administrators that you want to use the alpine email
    program. Point them to the wikipedia page, which has the history of the program, as well as its current hosting, which will lead them to my web
    site. If they need to talk to me, I will be happy to talk to them, or you
    about this in my personal email.

    Emphasize to them that XOAUTH2 is a safer way to access your email, and
    so it is better for you and the system that they adminster to allow you to
    use Alpine to access your email.

    Good luck!

    --
    Eduardo
    https://tinyurl.com/yc377wlh (web)
    http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git (Git)

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  • From Pascal W@21:1/5 to Eduardo Chappa on Tue Oct 19 23:28:54 2021
    Hi,

    Did you get it to work? I'm in the same scenario. Once they approve the app, it works great! 👍🏼

    Regards,
    Pascal

    On Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 3:12:59 AM UTC+1, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
    On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, Brandon Jewett-Hall wrote:

    I'm trying to authorize Alpine to access my university email account.
    When I go through the OAuth2 "Outlook (Device)" flow for IMAP in my browser, after signing in, I arrive at a screen that says

    "Need admin approval Alpine unverified"
    Brandon,

    just tell your administrators that you want to use the alpine email
    program. Point them to the wikipedia page, which has the history of the program, as well as its current hosting, which will lead them to my web site. If they need to talk to me, I will be happy to talk to them, or you about this in my personal email.

    Emphasize to them that XOAUTH2 is a safer way to access your email, and
    so it is better for you and the system that they adminster to allow you to use Alpine to access your email.

    Good luck!

    --
    Eduardo
    https://tinyurl.com/yc377wlh (web)
    http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git (Git)

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  • From Brandon Jewett-Hall@21:1/5 to Pascal W on Wed Oct 20 09:36:01 2021
    On Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 11:28:55 PM UTC-7, Pascal W wrote:

    Did you get it to work? I'm in the same scenario. Once they approve the app, it works great! 👍🏼

    No, I'm sorry to say I didn't.

    It would help if there were a step-by-step guide directed at Office 365 admins on how to enable Alpine. I would create it myself, except I don't have the requisite Microsoft expertise nor access to their systems.

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  • From William Unruh@21:1/5 to Brandon Jewett-Hall on Wed Oct 20 20:38:13 2021
    On 2021-10-20, Brandon Jewett-Hall <brandonh@google.com> wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 11:28:55 PM UTC-7, Pascal W wrote:

    Did you get it to work? I'm in the same scenario. Once they approve the app, it works great! 👍🏼

    No, I'm sorry to say I didn't.

    It would help if there were a step-by-step guide directed at Office 365 admins on how to enable Alpine. I would create it myself, except I don't have the requisite Microsoft expertise nor access to their systems.

    Pick up the phone and phone the administrator of the Office365. Tell
    them you want to use alpine.

    Or if you are the administrator, remove Office 365 as you mailer. Since
    we have no idea where you are or who your administrators are, we cannot
    get more "step by step" than that.
    Worry about a step by step guide to administrators when they tell you "I
    have no idea how to enable access for alpine" They might be competent.
    Just as you should not worry about translating your request into
    Serbo-Croatian until you find out that that is all they speak.

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