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: Mon, 09 Aug 2021 23:29:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <52589.36892.953561.24840@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87pmuofpai.fsf@gnu.org> <87sfzk71xw.fsf@randomsample> 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="10426"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: winkler@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 10 05:29:58 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 1mDISi-0002SQ-1X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 05:29:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53312 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDISg-0004lC-3E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2021 23:29:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45320) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDIRz-00046p-6P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2021 23:29:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36314) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDIRy-0001Wc-El; Mon, 09 Aug 2021 23:29:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDIRx-0001rP-3m; Mon, 09 Aug 2021 23:29:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87sfzk71xw.fsf@randomsample> (message from David Engster on Sun, 08 Aug 2021 10:52:59 +0200) 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:272252 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. ]]] > 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. Is this something that movemail could in principle do? If so, what are the obstacles? Is it just a matter of writing some code? -- 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)