On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 04:15:51AM -0800, 'Dave Rado' via K-9 Mail wrote: > Hi Sean > > Regarding your statement: "The point of oAuth is that you can authorize 3rd > parties without telling _that party_ your password. Basically, you tell > Google your password, then Google hands you an oAuth token that you give to > the 3rd party app, then the app uses that token to log in. " > > I've managed to set up my Thunderbird client with Gmail and IMAP on my > Windows PC, and I had to type my password in when I set up the email > account in Thunderbird, so I don't understand the difference between that > and K-9 Mail?
There is a _very_ long bug discussion about using oAuth in Thunderbird: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=849540 And apparently in ~June 2015 it was released: https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2015/06/thunderbird-38-released/ > Gmail users can now authenticate using Google’s preferred OAuth2 > authentication (which means that new GMail users should work with > Thunderbird without special configuration). So my guess (not being a TB user myself) is that they managed the oAuth stuff behind the scenes. At the moment, K-9 does not support oAuth, though there has been some progress. See: https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/655 --Sean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
