"Need admin approval" for Office 365

Brandon Jewett-Hall

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Mar 12, 2021, 7:00:42 PM3/12/21

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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

Eduardo Chappa

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Mar 12, 2021, 9:12:59 PM3/12/21

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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!

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Eduardo
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Pascal W

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Oct 20, 2021, 2:28:55 AM10/20/21

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Hi,

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

Regards,
Pascal

Brandon Jewett-Hall

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Oct 20, 2021, 12:36:02 PM10/20/21

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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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William Unruh

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Oct 20, 2021, 4:38:14 PM10/20/21

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On 2021-10-20, Brandon Jewett-Hall <bran...@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.