Email OAuth 2.0 Proxy is a local IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that adds OAuth 2.0 authentication transparently, allowing email clients that don't support OAuth to keep working unchanged. From the README:
"Email services that support IMAP, POP and/or SMTP access are increasingly requiring the use of OAuth 2.0 to authenticate connections, but not all clients support this method. This tool is a local proxy that intercepts the traditional IMAP/POP/SMTP authentication commands and transparently replaces them with the appropriate SASL (X)OAuth 2.0 commands and credentials. Your email client, app or device can continue to use the login or auth/authenticate options, with no need to make it aware of OAuth's existence. The proxy works in the background with a menu bar/taskbar helper or as a headless system service, and is compatible with macOS, Windows and Linux. It can be used with any email provider that supports OAuth 2.0 authentication, including Outlook, Office 365, Hotmail, 21Vianet, Gmail, Google Workspace, Fastmail, Yahoo, Comcast, AOL and many others."
"A Genuine Parts Distributor may require account creation or sign-in prior to order placement. See the distributor’s site for more information."
Not finding the part listed on MobileSentrix, I clicked the prominent chat bubble and asked whether it was available. I was informed that:
"At this time, in order for us to assist you with sourcing this part, you would first need to create an account with us. Since we operate on a B2B basis, we require valid business documentation to verify your account. Unfortunately, without this verification, we are unable to assist with sourcing the Mac Pro (2019) power supply."
No problem; I am a business customer and happy to create an account (though the B2B requirement seemed a little odd in light of Apple's "To repair Apple products, purchase genuine Apple parts from a Genuine Parts Distributor and reference the repair manual for your device."):
"Thank you for your understanding, and I appreciate your willingness to set up an account. Once you have completed the account setup, please return to this thread and let us know. We will be more than happy to assist you with sourcing the Mac Pro (2019) power supply and any other parts you may need."
Great! Set up the account as requested and was then informed:
"Please send your business license and government-issued ID to our onboarding team. Once your account is approved, we can proceed with sourcing the part for you. Please keep us updated once approval is complete."
I asked why a personal government-issued ID was required for a corporate account and was told that it "is a required part of the onboarding process even for corporate accounts."
OK, redacted the most sensitive bits on my driver's license with Preview and watermarked via iWatermark+ (for what it's worth), then sent along with the business registration.
Five days later, received this message:
"Thank you for sending over the requested documents. Unfortunately, we are strictly business to business wholesale suppliers who only service established brick and mortar phone repair shops. Due to this, we are unable to have your account approved. I apologies [sic] for any inconvenience that this may cause you"
True, my business does operate exclusively onsite and remotely; it might've been nice for Apple or MobileSentrix to mention a brick-and-mortar store requirement somewhere along the way before submitting sensitive documentation.
If only I had read Replace the power supply in your Mac Pro (2019) more carefully; it clearly states, "If you need to order a replacement power supply, contact Apple." Sure enough, they happily sold me the unlisted PSU by phone, no waiting, ID, or business documentation required!
without installing kernel extensions or weakening system security, via anylinuxfs. Built on the libkrun microVM hypervisor and NFS, it provides read/write access to virtually any Linux-compatible filesystem (ext4, btrfs, xfs, ZFS, NTFS*, exFAT, etc.), encrypted volumes (LUKS, BitLocker), and advanced storage configurations (LVM, RAID, multi-disk setups). Works with internal/external drives, disk images, and GPT, MBR, or raw partition formats.
TL;DR: Since at least February 2020, Microsoft's Autodiscover service has incorrectly routed the IANA-reserved example.com to Sumitomo Electric Industries' mail servers at sei.co.jp, potentially sending test credentials there.
Problem
While setting up email@example.com as a dummy account in Outlook (on both Windows and macOS), Outlook consistently auto-configured it to use imapgms.jnet.sei.co.jp (IMAP) and smtpgms.jnet.sei.co.jp (SMTP) despite example.com being an IANA-reserved domain that should not resolve to real services.
The same behavior appeared on different machines, profiles, networks, and DNS resolvers, including a newly provisioned Windows 365 Cloud PC:
Confirmation
DNS verification
Confirm that example.com has no DNS records pointing to sei.co.jp:
The domain has a null MX record (indicating it doesn't accept email) and no Autodiscover DNS entries, confirming the misconfiguration exists entirely within Microsoft's database.
Microsoft autodiscover API response
Microsoft's Autodiscover service misconfiguration can be confirmed via curl -v -u "email@example.com:password" "https://prod.autodetect.outlook.cloud.microsoft/autodetect/detect?app=outlookdesktopBasic":
The abandoned (but still eminently useful) BatChmod is:
"a utility for manipulating file and folder privileges in Mac OS X. It allows the manipulation of ownership as well as the privileges associated to the Owner, Group or others. It can also unlock files in order to apply those privileges and finally, it can remove any ACLs added to a folder or file under Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or better."
"can reset the owner, group, access permissions, Access Control Lists (ACLS), Extended Attributes (including Quarantine) to default settings, simply by dragging an app, folder or file into Permissions Reset, selecting what you'd like reset, then clicking on 'Reset'."
with Peter Borg's Sandkorn. Notable constraint mentioned in the FAQ:
"A normal app consists of many files and folders and Sandkorn checks it to see if it can find any more executables that have entitlements. For performance reasons it only checks a limited amount of subfolders and these are at the moment:
include a liberal licensing policy (not unlike Sublime Text's): "All our products are available for download as trial versions. Test them for as long as you want, make sure they work the way you want, try our support" (prices shown for personal licenses):
Ammonite ($22.35): "The tag cloud for macOS. Visualize the tags on your system and easily drill down on the information you are looking for. Supports Finder, DEVONthink and Obsidian."
BackupLoupe ($33.53): "Your Swiss Army Knife for anything related to Time Machine. See which files have been backed up and which ones take up the most space. Locate files and restore them via drag&drop."
GoToFile ($22.35): "Instantly access any file on your Mac using fuzzy search or regular expressions. Search everywhere or define search sets. It essentially replaces the macOS 'File>Open…' dialog."
LaunchControl ($33.53): "The only fully-featured launchd GUI for macOS. A complete solution to create, manage and debug launchd(8) services." (See also Peter Borg's Lingon Pro, which "can run tasks as root and is a fully featured launchd editor. It can also monitor all tasks in the background.")
"Over the years, Microsoft has deleted thousands of downloads for prior versions of Windows, Office, Visual Studio, SQL Server, and more. These downloads include ones for Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7, old versions of runtimes such as the .NET Framework, Visual C++ Redistributable, and DirectX, and freeware tools such as Microsoft Virtual PC and Microsoft SQL Server, among countless other Microsoft no longer supports.
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