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by binaryturtle 144 days ago
Why do you need to send a password when using their Autodiscover API? Would Outlook send the respective passwords for each email account to Microsoft?
2 comments

I suspect they try to login and reverse engineer the IMAP config.
curl -u just requires the field to be there, I suspect. No authentication takes place. You can send any password and the output doesn't change.