Re: [Imap-protocol] Seeking clarity on Gmail "Access for less secure apps" setting for non XOAuth2 access
Joshua Cranmer <[email protected]> Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:52:49 -0500
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On 8/29/2014 3:53 PM, Brandon Long wrote: > And we did reach out to our larger clients, assuming we knew who they > were and how to reach out to them.... sending us the ID command is > certainly helpful in that instance to know who are larger clients are. > We also had some discussion with Thunderbird, but assumed our > fallback was sufficient for clients who couldn't really switch to > OAUTH. OAUTH2 is not ready for Thunderbird at this point, really, > since you have to pre-register to get your client-id, and then also > hard-code the various URLs for usage, as there is no auto-discovery > yet either. Unfortunately, the bad guys aren't waiting for the > standards to be written. Since this is definitely of interest to others on the list--are there any updates on the dynamic client registration and autodiscovery drafts yet? I've seen progress on the Dynamic client registration draft (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-dyn-reg-20), although I admit I haven't read the spec closely yet to provide feedback; but I've been unable to find indication of any autodiscovery work. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth _______________________________________________ Imap-protocol mailing list [email protected] http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-protocol