2021-09-03: Outlook Web Apps: WTF rak
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I recently moved to Montreal to start a postdoc at McGill.
Annoyingly, McGill uses Office365/OWA with mandatory 2FA for
their email, so I had to patch neomutt to support XOAUTH2
authentication [0]. Infinitely more annoying is the following
OWA "feature": I saved a draft of a plaintext email over IMAP
using neomutt. When I went to resume my email, I discoverd that
OWA had converted my email to, you guessed it, HTML. Thankfully,
they were kind enough to tell me that they had done so by adding
an HTML comment:
Hi,
blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah
Ryan
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|)|/ Ryan Kavanagh | 4E46 9519 ED67 7734 268F
|\|\ https://rak.ac | BD95 8F7B F8FC 4A11 C97A
Who the actual fuck thought this was a good idea or that it was
remotely helpful?
[0] https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/3032