Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients

[Tim Cross]

Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org> writes:

> IMAP and SMTP can use OAuth2 for authentication.  But to properly
> support OAuth2 in Emacs, the FSF needs to talk to big email providers
> like Microsoft and Google and get Emacs registered as an OAuth2
> application (like Thunderbird has done), or advocate for some better
> solution than embedding keys in the application binaries.  This was
> discussed in bug 41386 [1]; I hope the FSF is working on it.
>

but isn't this the issue - a 'registered' application is just one which
has a registered application id key, but the T&C for the major mail
providers does not allow that registered ID token to be public, which
means it cannot be put into Emacs source code. This means there is no
practical advantage in Emacs being registered.