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I didn't mean that they had native IMAP support for those, but that these are the 2FA methods they support in general. With browser-based OAuth, it's viable to
by jsnell 4y ago
I didn't mean that they had native IMAP support for those, but that these are the 2FA methods they support in general. With browser-based OAuth, it's viable to build support for a new 2FA method in just one place. Needing to build each of these into a protocol + get all popular IMAP clients to implement that support? It'd take an eternity; we'd probably still be stuck on just TOTP.
- magicalhippo 4y agoAh yes, my misunderstanding. Indeed, OAuth makes it easy to swap out the actual authentication step. Which is nice, because the service shouldn't really care about that, only that the user is authenticated and authorized.