Ugh. It’s not working for me. My gmail spins and spins and then i get
unauthorized. But MM is an authorized app. I’ve gone into those settings at
google. I could reinstall the account? I have many smart mailboxes. Ugh.
Thoughts ?
Annamarie
Annamarie Pluhar
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Please forgive brevity and typos. Typing with thumb!!
> On May 31, 2019, at 2:11 PM, Patrik Fältström via mailmate
> wrote:
>
> Excellent news! Thanks!
>
> Patrik
>
>> On 31 May 2019, at 12:16, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>>
>> Hi MailMate users,
>>
>> a couple of updates on the subjects I wrote about a month ago.
>>
>> First some very good news: I've finally passed the verification process for
>> the Google OAuth API. It has been a bit frustrating and involved weird steps
>> including making a YouTube video essentially showing that MailMate is an
>> email client. In the end I was again asked to go through the security audit,
>> but after yet another appeal it was revealed that this was a mistake. This
>> means that MailMate will continue to support Gmail -- also after January
>> 2019. Well, at least until the next time Google decides to threaten to pull
>> the OAuth plug.
>>
>> My work on WKWebView (the new message view) continues. It's still not ready
>> for testing (because of a lack of essential features like image blocking and
>> signing/encryption results), but I've added important major features like
>> the “Find” interface to do text searches. A new feature is that this now
>> also works for the headers. Scrolling behavior has been tricky to implement,
>> but this is almost complete. Next up are changes needed for how HTML is
>> created for the message view. The new message view allows multiple HTML
>> segments to be created and displayed in separate HTML views. This is both
>> more flexible and more robust with respect to security when dealing with
>> signed/encrypted content and/or when displaying complex and/or multiple
>> messages.
>>
>> (And the bad news: When I work on major features I tend to fall behind on
>> answering emails and updating support tickets.)
>>
>> --
>> Benny
>> https://freron.com/become_a_mailmate_patron/
>>
>>> On 30 Apr 2019, at 16:56, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi MailMate users,
>>>
>>> I know I'm behind on answering emails (also on the mailing list), but it
>>> doesn't mean I'm not working :)
>>>
>>> ## WKWebView
>>>
>>> Right now I'd just like to note that I'm busy working on replacing the main
>>> message view in MailMate. It currently uses the so-called WebView class
>>> provided by Apple, but this was deprecated a long time ago (by Apple) and
>>> it should be replaced by a so-called WKWebView. Both classes are used to
>>> display HTML (which MailMate also generates to display plain text messages)
>>> and if that is all that is needed then it's a simple replacement. But
>>> MailMate also has image blocking, context sensitive menus, text search,
>>> etc. and all of this has to work in a completely different way. In some
>>> cases, it's not even clear that I can provide the same features as before.
>>> We'll see about that. WKWebView is 10.10+, but right now it looks like
>>> image blocking can only work on 10.13+. I'm not quite sure what to do about
>>> that yet...
>>>
>>> The latest test release includes the new message view, but it's disabled
>>> for now because too many things don't work yet. I'm mainly writing about
>>> this since some changes might also affect the old message view in the
>>> latest test release.
>>>
>>> The good news is that when the replacement is finished then I should, at
>>> least in theory, be able to fix various old issues.
>>>
>>> ## Google OAuth API Application Verification
>>>
>>> MailMate uses the so-called OAuth2 authentication method for Gmail
>>> IMAP/SMTP access. This works far better than password-based access which I
>>> suspect is eventually going to be dropped completely by Google. I had (and
>>> still have) some reservations about OAuth2 support which I outlined in
>>> [this blog
>>> post](https://blog.freron.com/2015/is-oauth2-support-a-good-thing/). I
>>> expressed that I worried that Google would some day use OAuth2 to “hit the
>>> kill switch” on MailMate...
>>>
>>> ...and recently I was told by Google that I needed to start a verification
>>> process for MailMate. I've done that and if I understand correctly I have
>>> until the end of 2019 to complete this process.
>>>
>>> Now, the problem is that I'm not really sure I can (or is willing to)
>>> complete the verification process at all. It *might* include a security
>>> audit with a price tag between $15000 and $75000+ (I'm clearly in the wrong
>>> business). There seems to be exemptions for desktop email applications and
>>> I've asked Google to clarify this, but I also feel that I'm obligated
