Re: Any interest in an XOAUTH2 patch for smtpmail (Gmail 2-factor auth)?

[Tim Cross]

I think this would be an excellent extension as it should mean you won't need to use the 'application' passwords hack, which sort of undermines 2fa configs anyway.

On 6 January 2018 at 16:32, John Wiegley <address@hidden> wrote:

>>>>> "CC" == Cesar Crusius <address@hidden> writes:

CC> I recently had to add XOAUTH2 support in smtpmail to access my two-factor
CC> authenticated Gmail account, which turned out to be surprisingly simple
CC> (my hack has about 20 lines of code, I guess it would about double to do
CC> it properly).

CC> It uses oauth2.el, so my plan would be to make smtpmail load that library
CC> on demand, in case the new smtpmail-xoauth2 variables are configured. I
CC> guess the required functionality could be copy-and-pasted, but that seems
CC> a waste.

CC> Is there any interest in a patch?

This sounds useful to me. How will users know to enable the extra behavior?

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Tim

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