TIL about XOAUTH2, a mechanism to use OAUTH2 to log in to SMTP and IMAP, so that secure 2FA flows can be followed.https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/xoauth2-protocol …
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Replying to @FiloSottile
It's not clear, but presumably this is only for Gimap, Google's non-standard IMAP implementation?
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Replying to @jogbert
AFAICT it's an extension that any standard IMAP service can implement. But I know very little about IMAP.
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Replying to @FiloSottile @jogbert
Anyone can implement, but unfortunately MUAs have to embed OAuth parameters specific to each IMAP provider, so practically speaking it favors large incumbent providers like Gmail.
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Specific to each IMAP provider, or to each OAuth provider?
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Both - first you need a mapping from IMAP/SMTP provider to OAuth provider, and then you need the OAuth parameters. Here's the file used by Thunderbird for this: https://searchfox.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/base/util/OAuth2Providers.jsm …
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