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If an email provider does not offer standard pop3 or imap it is not an email provider. It's just some web shit.
by superkuh 5y ago
If an email provider does not offer standard pop3 or imap it is not an email provider. It's just some web shit.
- 0xCMP 5y agothey offer both. they simply require more secure authentication. something which doesn't require the app to know the username or password. it's that simple.
- md_ 5y agoIMAP with OAuth is standard. What am I missing?
- superkuh 5y agoIt is not, in fact, a standard. It's a proprietary complicating thing that megacorps do and everyone else assumes is standard. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749 "The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework" >This specification is designed for use with HTTP ([RFC2616]). The use of OAuth over any protocol other than HTTP is out of scope. So now you have HTTP protocol being used for IMAP, or worse and more common, not-OAuth over IMAP and you call that standard? These are Microsoft, Google, etc announcements of proprietary things. Not standards. And every single megacorp requires a different custom solution to interact with.
- tialaramex 5y ago> It is not, in fact, a standard. It's a proprietary complicating thing Nope, it's a standard. Standards you don't like aren't proprietary, they're just standards which superkuh doesn't like.
- superkuh 5y agoIt it were standard the same OAuth 2.0 module could be used with every provider of services. The reality is you need a custom implementation for every single megacorp and their local twist. It's not even a defacto standard by collective use.
- Spivak 5y agoWhy is it an issue that getting a token for use with IMAP requires an out-of-band HTTP request? How do you think SSO works for anything other than web services?