From: Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org>
To: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2021 10:22:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y29cc8yv.fsf@fitzsim.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfzk71xw.fsf@randomsample> (David Engster's message of "Sun, 08 Aug 2021 10:52:59 +0200")
David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
>> Others have mentioned "officially" registering Emacs as IMAP/SMTP
>> clients for Office365 (and possibly Gmail), similar to what seems
>> to be the case for Thunderbird. I am wondering how davmail is
>> doing this.
>
> Microsoft has actually recognized that it does not make sense for
> desktop applications to embed secrets into their code, so they
> distinguish between "public" and "confidential" client applications:
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/msal-client-applications
>
> Public client applications do not have a client secret but only an ID
> which can simply be embedded into the application, which is how DavMail
> does it. Public client applications are only allowed to access web APIs
> on behalf of the user, but this is usually enough.
Interesting, but are public client applications allowed to use
IMAP/SMTP? Or must public client applications use WebDAV to communicate
with Microsoft servers, like DavMail does?
It seems like Thunderbird could act as a public client application,
however I believe it is currently acting as a confidential client
application. I wonder why.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-08 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-03 5:00 oauth2 support for Emacs email clients Roland Winkler
2021-08-03 6:32 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-08-03 8:21 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-03 19:38 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-04 0:56 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-04 7:27 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-04 7:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-08-04 23:12 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-04 7:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-04 7:21 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-05 10:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-03 9:00 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-03 19:27 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-03 22:02 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-05 0:21 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-10 14:39 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-11 0:43 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-11 0:54 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-12 2:16 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-12 2:33 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-03 20:21 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-03 20:40 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-03 21:14 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-03 21:19 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-14 10:46 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-14 11:12 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-14 11:47 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-08-15 3:04 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-15 3:04 ` Making your own application credentials as a user Richard Stallman
2021-08-15 4:10 ` Tim Cross
2021-08-03 9:20 ` oauth2 support for Emacs email clients Eric S Fraga
2021-08-03 11:17 ` Tim Cross
2021-08-03 12:55 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-03 13:14 ` tomas
2021-08-05 14:15 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-03 15:04 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-08-03 19:45 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-04 6:58 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-08-03 19:41 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-04 6:59 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-08-04 14:45 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2021-08-04 22:45 ` Tim Cross
2021-08-04 23:29 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2021-08-05 7:45 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-08-08 3:58 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-09 8:30 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-08-12 2:15 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-12 18:59 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-03 23:38 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-08 6:01 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-08 6:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-08-08 23:48 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-09 0:01 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-08 8:52 ` David Engster
2021-08-08 14:22 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons [this message]
2021-08-08 14:47 ` David Engster
2021-08-08 15:30 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2021-08-08 16:00 ` David Engster
2021-08-08 23:31 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-10 2:01 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2021-08-10 9:07 ` David Engster
2021-08-10 14:41 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2021-08-10 15:56 ` David Engster
2021-08-11 6:37 ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-08-11 3:00 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-11 9:57 ` David Engster
2021-08-13 3:10 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-11 2:55 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-14 15:00 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2021-08-14 15:26 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-08 16:05 ` Tim Cross
2021-08-09 8:39 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-08-10 3:29 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-10 6:08 ` Tim Cross
2021-08-10 14:18 ` Roland Winkler
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