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bug#41386: 28.0.50; Gnus nnimap OAuth 2.0 support
From: |
Thomas Fitzsimmons |
Subject: |
bug#41386: 28.0.50; Gnus nnimap OAuth 2.0 support |
Date: |
Sat, 23 May 2020 11:49:34 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> > OK, I'll try to help, but I don't know what Google or Gmail will do in
> > the future, in general, obviously.
>
> I don't expect you to practice precognition. But it may be possible
> to deduce something by putting their announcements together with other
> known facts. Maybe we could figure out questions to ask them.
>
> > Your question reminded me that Gmail provides "basic HTML view" which
> > does not require any Javascript whatsoever for sign-in or for the main
> > interface, and thus is fully useable with Emacs Web Wowser (eww).
>
> That is a significant fact. It means that using Gmail in the free
> world won't become entirely impossible. Thanks.
>
> So I modify the question:
>
> Will Gmail in the future permit access from the Free World
> to read mail with a free local MUA in any manner whatsoever?
>
> And there is another followup question:
>
> Is it possible to log in on basic HTML view
> passing via a proxy that will hide your actual location?
Yes. Here is the recipe I tested:
sudo apt install proxychains
sudo sed 's/#quiet_mode/quiet_mode/' -i /etc/proxychains.conf
ssh -ND 9050 <host-from-which-to-access-mail> &
HOME=$(mktemp -d) proxychains emacs -Q -nw
M-x eww RET https://gmail.com RET
[Use the usual web-based log-in procedure via Emacs Web Wowser.]
The log-in procedure was successful and I was able to use the basic HTML
view interface.
To confirm the results of the test, I also logged into the same service
via Firefox and a direct connection. After I did the procedure above,
the Firefox session showed:
"This account is currently being used in 1 other location (<address>)."
Where <address> was the IP address of <host-from-which-to-access-mail>.
The above is just an example, other methods may be superior in various
ways, but I think this proves that Gmail is useable in Emacs Web Wowser
via a proxy.
Thomas
P.S. Prior to installing proxychains, I tried using Emacs's built-in
proxy support in the same way. There are references to SOCKS in the URL
manual, but I couldn't find an easy way to make EWW use localhost:9050
as a SOCKS proxy. I debugged until I got to the comment "Should check
for socks" in url-default-find-proxy-for-url.
- bug#41386: 28.0.50; Gnus nnimap OAuth 2.0 support, (continued)
bug#41386: 28.0.50; Gnus nnimap OAuth 2.0 support, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/21
bug#41386: 28.0.50; Gnus nnimap OAuth 2.0 support, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/19
- bug#41386: 28.0.50; Gnus nnimap OAuth 2.0 support, Thomas Fitzsimmons, 2020/05/20
- bug#41386: 28.0.50; Gnus nnimap OAuth 2.0 support, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/20
- bug#41386: 28.0.50; Gnus nnimap OAuth 2.0 support, Thomas Fitzsimmons, 2020/05/21
- bug#41386: 28.0.50; Gnus nnimap OAuth 2.0 support, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/21
- bug#41386: 28.0.50; Gnus nnimap OAuth 2.0 support,
Thomas Fitzsimmons <=
- bug#41386: 28.0.50; Gnus nnimap OAuth 2.0 support, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/23
- bug#41386: 28.0.50; Gnus nnimap OAuth 2.0 support, Thomas Fitzsimmons, 2020/05/24
- bug#41386: 28.0.50; Gnus nnimap OAuth 2.0 support, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/25