Re: XOAUTH2 support

On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 03:54:12PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Stefan Krah <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Here are the steps in more detail:
> > 
> >   http://www.bytereef.org/howto/oauth2/getmail.html
> 
> Thanks, Stefan.  I've released getmail 5.6 with your patch included, though I
> can't really test it as I don't use Gmail (and won't).  I made a few minor
> changes - it would be nice if the above webpage could document using this
> functionality as released:
> 
>   -`gettoken.py` renamed to `getmail-gmail-xoauth-tokens` so users know what
>   program it belongs to and can have a hope of finding it with a web search ;)
>   -it was using a default path to the token data file that isn't appropriate
>   for software installed outside of a user's home directory.  I've changed it
>   to explicitly require the path to the .json file as a positional argument,
>   i.e. password_command = ("getmail-gmail-xoauth-tokens",
>                            "~/.getmail/gmail.json") or similar.
> 
> Thanks for the contribution!

Thank you for including the patch and the script!

I like the changes and updated the above link.  All works perfectly.


In case anyone wonders how often the refresh tokens expire: Mine have now
been valid for about three weeks and counting, so thankfully the exposure
to web interactivity is limited.


Stefan Krah