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That's one of the things that etacts (http://www.etacts.com http://www.etacts.com) does. Though when this was discussed here a few weeks ago in http://news.ycom
by jsnell 17y ago
That's one of the things that etacts (http://www.etacts.com http://www.etacts.com) does. Though when this was discussed here a few weeks ago in
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1144560 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1144560 a lot of people seemed unhappy about it being an external service that needed to permanently store your gmail password.
- buro9 17y agoI still really want that service. But my gmail controls access to everything and I cannot overcome the risk associated with divulging my password to a third party. No bells and whistles on Gmail is worth risking the security of the email, and that is precisely what is being asked when we're asked to give our password to a third party. And there are examples of such abuse of trust, you only have to look at the court case about Facebook execs using passwords to login to email accounts of competitors. So yes, etacts looks wonderful. But it doesn't offer something so compelling that I would give out my password. It's actually very hard for me to imagine what could be so compelling that I would give out that password.
- sparky 17y agoA valid concern. This prompted them to implement oAuth for GMail, as described here http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/06/gmail-imap-etacts/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/06/gmail-imap-etacts/ and discussed here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1172211 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1172211 .