Email::Folder::Exchange and basic authentication

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Microsoft says basic authentication will be disabled on Office365 in October 2020. Looking at Email::Folder::Exchange, it doesn't say if it uses basic authentication or not. I assumed it did though, and if you pry into the soap object from Email::Folder::Exchange:EWS, it seems that it does:

use warnings;
use strict;
use Email::Folder::Exchange::EWS;
use Data::Dumper;

my $folder = Email::Folder::Exchange::EWS->new('https://outlook.office
+365.com', 'myemail@address.com', 'mysupersecurepassword');
print Dumper $folder->soap();
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snippit of results:

'basic_authentication' => {
    'outlook.office365.com:443' => {
        '' => [
            'myemail@address.com',
            'mysupersecurepassword'
        ]
    }
},
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Where can we go to see if any changes to the module are in the works? I have several instances of this module in production use and I'm hoping not to have to rewrite them too much.

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Re: Email::Folder::Exchange and basic authentication by stevieb (Canon) on Sep 23, 2019 at 19:27 UTC
"Where can we go to see if any changes to the module are in the works?" That distribution has a last-update date in 2011. I would start by contacting the author, Warren Smith. His email address can be found on his user page, which is available by clicking his name in the top-right of the MetaCPAN link, or by reviewing the AUTHOR section of the documentation for the distribution. See if he's still in Perl-land, and whether he's still maintaining the project. If so, perhaps you could send patches. If not, maybe there will be renewed interest in it, and you (or someone else) can become a co-maintainer as to update things before this 'basic authentication' deprecation becomes an issue.	[reply]

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Re: Email::Folder::Exchange and basic authentication
by stevieb (Canon) on Sep 23, 2019 at 19:27 UTC

"Where can we go to see if any changes to the module are in the works?"

That distribution has a last-update date in 2011. I would start by contacting the author, Warren Smith. His email address can be found on his user page, which is available by clicking his name in the top-right of the MetaCPAN link, or by reviewing the AUTHOR section of the documentation for the distribution.

See if he's still in Perl-land, and whether he's still maintaining the project. If so, perhaps you could send patches. If not, maybe there will be renewed interest in it, and you (or someone else) can become a co-maintainer as to update things before this 'basic authentication' deprecation becomes an issue.

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