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Would love to try this, but allowing access to all mail on my account is a deal breaker. The "It all takes just a few clicks. We never have access to your passw
by tarikjn 12y ago
Would love to try this, but allowing access to all mail on my account is a deal breaker. The "It all takes just a few clicks. We never have access to your password." isn't enough for me to go past that fact -- who needs your password when you have all the emails now and in the future! (not to mention write emails on your behalf). I did check the FAQ, and although it does assure the reader only the headers are accessed, this is not enough.
I would use this only if the Google authorization checklist actually says this only access email headers, and then I would like to be able to limit the past time period of email accessed, and not give ongoing access.
- nowarninglabel 12y agoYeah, I feel the same way, even though I know one of the guys working on this. That said, I do think they have a great product, just wish there was a better way for them to get the information without needing all those permissions.
- brazzledazzle 12y agoCould they write a small imap application that dumped the headers into simple json or what have you that we could then verify before submitting? I know it's not exactly user friendly, but it would make the people that care about security a lot happier.
- nowarninglabel 12y agoThey wrote up some info on an alternative today: http://blog.conspire.com/post/100016691078/why-we-arent-using-the-gmail-api-yet http://blog.conspire.com/post/100016691078/why-we-arent-usin...