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Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients
From: |
Ulrich Mueller |
Subject: |
Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 09:45:56 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> On Thu, 05 Aug 2021, Tim Cross wrote:
> 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.
Where do proprietary clients store their ID token, if not in the
application itself?
Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients, Roland Winkler, 2021/08/03
Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients, Richard Stallman, 2021/08/07
Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients, Eric S Fraga, 2021/08/09
Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients, Richard Stallman, 2021/08/11
Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients, Roland Winkler, 2021/08/12
Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients, Richard Stallman, 2021/08/03
Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients, David Engster, 2021/08/08