OAuth2 Support

[ephekt]

Anyone heard news on when OAuth2 will supported?

[nfo]

I don't see any support for OAuth2 in the GMail IMAP and SMTP protocols doc. As I don't have any friend at Google, I can't help !

[lucaswiman]

As far as I can tell, Google does not offer OAuth2 support for IMAP at all (yet). https://mail.google.com/ is allowed in the list of scopes, so you can presumably use the GMail Inbox Feed (untested). However, their deprecation policy lists that they will continue to support OAuth1 until 2015, by which time they will hopefully have implemented IMAP/SMTP OAuth2 support. You can continue to use OAuth1 by either doing nothing (if you're already set up), or registering your domain for an OAuth1 key/secret if you need to start a new app. See the following links for instructions:
https://accounts.google.com/ManageDomains
https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/RegistrationForWebAppsAuto

It's sad, as their App authorization screen is much nicer for OAuth2 than OAuth1.

[glongman]

I'm confused. The docs list XOAUTH2 first and Oauth1 under "Older protocols"

https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/xoauth2_protocol

So they have not implemented XOAUTH2 even though the docs say to use it?

[lucaswiman]

Woah! Hey! I'm pretty sure that wasn't there last week (though it's entirely conceivable that I missed it). Awesome. If these docs are correct, they now support OAUTH2 authentication on IMAP. Thanks for noticing, @glongman, I had given up.

[glongman]

:D

[nfo]

Nice. I'll take a look at it during the week-end.

[glongman]

I puzzled it out. Will send pull req for your review.

update: see #2

[nfo]

Thanks @glongman ! Updating the README before making a new release.

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