[MlMt] Adding Oauth2 accounts?

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Thu Sep 6 09:08:26 EDT 2018


On 6 Sep 2018, at 3:13, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 5 Sep 2018, at 20:31, Verdon Vaillancourt wrote:
>
>> That’s pretty much the same scenario for several of my accounts, 
>> but I’ve had no issue. I do use oAuth with one, and I think 
>> application passwords with this specific one. I think what you need 
>> to do is put imap.gmail.com in the IMAP server field, regardless of 
>> what your domain is… that should work.
>
> That is correct. Currently, MailMate is hardcoded to only offer the 
> OAuth2 option for the following hostnames:
>
> 	imap.gmail.com
> 	imap.googlemail.com
> 	imap.outlook.com
> 	imap-mail.outlook.com
>
> And the corresponding `smtp` variants.
>
> The `username` should not affect the availability of the OAuth2 
> setting.
>
> @Steven: The latest test releases try to guess IMAP/SMTP settings 
> based on the domain of the main email address. You have to explicitly 
> enter `imap.gmail.com` if your email address is not at `gmail.com`. 
> The good news is that for some email accounts, the user only needs to 
> enter 1 email address (and an account name) and it should be ready to 
> go. Let me know if you think a bug somehow means that this makes the 
> OAuth2 setting unavailable to you (I couldn't reproduce such a 
> problem).
>
This isn't working for me. Benny, I'll send you a screen shot off-list. 
The only
way I can trigger the correct behavior is to put a gmail address in the 
email
address field.


         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb




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