Re: gmail+imap+smtp (oauth2)

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Wed, 04 May 2022 10:38:41 -0400, Stefan Monnier 
>>>>> <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> said:

    >> (I'm hoping someone can prove me wrong, and point me to a command-line
    >> procedure using only free software that allows me to get a refresh token
    >> when required.  We're told OAuth2 is a modern standard, right?  So there
    >> should be a modern, standard way of doing the same things as the
    >> JavaScript authentication blobs... right?)

    Stefan> My understanding is that current definitions of "modern" sound very 
much
    Stefan> like "JavaScript authentication blobs".

...with some random semi-redundant impenetrable XML crap wrapped
around it (maybe not for OAuth2, but certainly for other
authentication protocols).

Robert
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