[MlMt] Okta support

[Marco Qualizza]

I'm sure that, once I've read it slowly enough, all the parts will make 
sense when put together. :-)

Thank you for your reply!

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On 12 Sep 2018, at 9:14, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 11 Sep 2018, at 17:10, Marco Qualizza wrote:
>
>> I was wondering what the status is for Okta support in MailMate?  Is 
>> this something that you are working (or plan on working) on, or is it 
>> something that you'd like/need some community support/help getting 
>> done?
>
> It's not something I'm working on, but if we can figure out how it's 
> supposed to work then I'm willing to look into it. If I understand 
> correctly, Okta isn't just Okta. Okta is used together with some 
> existing service/company and MailMate would need to be registered with 
> each of these services/companies to work with each one. Or more 
> specifically, MailMate would need to be registered with a particular 
> service/company to work with the use of Okta at that service/company. 
> As previously mentioned MailMate is hardcoded to work with Gmail and 
> outlook.com for which I've registered MailMate myself. In order to 
> test a solution for an Okta-using IMAP/SMTP server I would need 
> MailMate to be registered such that it has a `client_id` as described 
> on [this 
> page](https://developer.okta.com/authentication-guide/implementing-authentication/auth-code-pkce). 
> Given that I could look into how similar the OAuth2-flow is compared 
> to Gmail/Outlook (a quick look tells me that some things are 
> different).
>
> If it works then I could then look into making it possible for the 
> user to provide the `client_id` (and various settings) instead of 
> having it hardcoded into MailMate as done for Gmail/Outlook.
>
> I hope that makes sense :)
>
> -- 
> Benny
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>
>> On 29 Aug 2018, at 9:38, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>>
>>> On 24 Aug 2018, at 17:04, Nicholas Vahalik wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've met the guy that owns the Oauth2 stuff for Okta. He said it 
>>>> supports Oauth2 as long as MM supports "by the book" OIDC or Oauth 
>>>> support.
>>>
>>> Well, MailMate has OAuth2 support for Gmail and `outlook.com` 
>>> addresses. Part of OAuth2 is that the email client needs to be 
>>> registered with the email service used. This is currently hardcoded 
>>> into MailMate, but that could be changed. It still requires IMAP 
>>> access to be available though.
>>>
>>> For the record, I believe Okta OAuth2 support for desktop apps is 
>>> described 
>>> [here](https://developer.okta.com/authentication-guide/implementing-authentication/auth-code-pkce). 
>>> Although I haven't checked in detail it's probably close to what I 
>>> do for Gmail/Outlook, but I don't think it's exactly the same.


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