From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2021 23:58:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <52589.36892.953561.24840@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <871r7aubp5.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87v94m1fkg.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37867"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: winkler@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thomas Fitzsimmons Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 08 05:59:27 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mCZyB-0009dx-Bc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2021 05:59:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49628 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mCZyA-0001jv-DQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2021 23:59:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41864) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mCZxg-000143-8l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2021 23:58:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49488) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mCZxf-0003af-Px; Sat, 07 Aug 2021 23:58:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mCZxf-0002tX-9b; Sat, 07 Aug 2021 23:58:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Thomas Fitzsimmons on Wed, 04 Aug 2021 10:45:21 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:272189 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > DavMail is a good fallback, but from a Free Software perspective it's > also helpful to use/test/mention the native IMAP/SMTP support in Emacs. > DavMail speaks a proprietary protocol to the email server. I'd like to make sure there is no miscommunication here. Could you explain what you mean when you say it is "proprietary"? Is DevMail free software? Does it implement that protocol with free software? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)