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Experimental Gmail IMAP interface using oAuth
- sumeeta 17y agoAny obvious use cases for this? (Gmail IMAP or federated login outside the web browser) Research for their operating systems?
- petewarden 17y agoThe main point is so you don't have to hand over your password to let programs access your email. Why would a service need your email messages? Maybe to do cool analytics like etacts, or do an improved contact import that prioritizes the contacts by how often you correspond with them.
- neilc 17y agoOne thing that particularly annoys me is when websites like LinkedIn and Facebook ask for your webmail password so they can suggest new contacts based on your email history. They promise they won't store your password, but it is shockingly insecure.
- petewarden 17y agoKevin Marks dug this out originally: http://groups.google.com/group/webfinger/browse_thread/thread/f6ea2e0099a2a33 http://groups.google.com/group/webfinger/browse_thread/threa... I'm guessing this is what etacts are using. I wonder why Google haven't made an official announcement?
- csallen 17y agoHas anyone tried using this with the Ruby OAuth gem? (found here: http://github.com/pelle/oauth-plugin http://github.com/pelle/oauth-plugin) OAuth is quite cool, but the documentation and tutorials seem to be all over the place.
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoI need to update this tutorial (some things are outdated) http://www.manu-j.com/blog/add-google-oauth-ruby-on-rails-sites/214/ http://www.manu-j.com/blog/add-google-oauth-ruby-on-rails-si... but i have successfully used google oauth with rails.
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- fierarul 17y agoThis looks kinda wrong to me: the "wiki" is on google sites. Not on google code as the rest of these kind of technical wikis are (ie. GWT, Android). Also, they use yahoo groups. Just seems odd somehow.