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FYI, you can authenticate against both Googles IMAP and SMTP submission services using OAUTH. * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST C
by mike-cardwell 15y ago
FYI, you can authenticate against both Googles IMAP and SMTP submission services using OAUTH.
* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN X-GM-EXT-1 XYZZY SASL-IR AUTH=XOAUTH
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH
- ConstantineXVI 15y agoThe client has to support it though; can't think of a mail client I've used with oAuth support.
- mike-cardwell 15y agoOAuth was added so apps could be built which are able to access other peoples gmail accounts, but without sharing credentials. I believe there are web apps which utilise this OAuth capability, but I haven't come across any desktop apps which use it. My point still stands though, which is that you can use IMAP without passwords.