Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 00:44:25 -0400, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> said:

    Richard> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    
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    Richard> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     
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    Richard> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. 
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    >> It looks like this approach keeps popping up as a "possible
    Richard> solution," so I'll just point out again that this is _already
    Richard> implemented_ in the package above, and is being used by various 
people
    Richard> to make Gnus work with Gmail and XOAuth2. The discussion here is 
about
    Richard> how to _avoid_ having to do that.

    Richard> What IS "this approach"?  Does it get a key that GNUS can use for 
everyone?
    Richard> Does it have each user get a key from Google?

The latter. Basically each user has to log in to the google developer
'console' with a web browser and register themselves, and then perform
a set of steps to generate an OAuth2 token.

Robert