[conspire] Third-party (IMAP4, SMTP, OAUTH2) code access to GMail

[Ivan Sergio Borgonovo]

On 4/21/22 00:51, Rick Moen wrote:
> For year, I've been hearing that Google's been putting more and
> more technical obstacles in the way of using your own mail client
> as your interface for a GMail account.  I honestly don't care much;
> GMail can live or die and I really don't care how its users are
> mistreate and why.

I haven't had time to read all the thread... just resurrecting from a 
major HD wreckage, probably due to some software failure or a cosmic ray.


This thing is still on my TODO list and I wish I could find the time to 
check if there are any reasonable solutions.

I've read and I still haven't checked that getmail could support oauth2.

https://www.bytereef.org/howto/oauth2/getmail.html

There should be another path, but it doesn't seem as promising or simply 
I don't know shit about google ecosystem... you can generate a set of 
un/pw just for accessing a slice of data of your user account

I'm not sure if I want to move to getmail from fetchmail or simply lower 
my dependence on google email addresses.

Other than the one you have to have if you have an android device, when 
it was easier I opened several to register to various services, I've 
used one to do bug reporting to debian, because debian bug tracking 
system as an antispam measure refuses mail coming from mail at SOMETHING 
adresses etc...

Since it's not easy anymore to register gmail accounts at will, I'll 
probably go for the latter and try to find another service for emails 
that aren't easily relatable with me. Suggestions are welcome.

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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
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