On 04/16/2016 10:33 AM, Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:
> Wed, 13 Apr 2016 11:16:29 -0500, »Q« wrote:
>> In <news:[email protected]>,
>> Rick Merrill <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I have not heard of  OAuth 2.0 - an open standard - is it not
>>> compatible with seamonkey?
>>
>> I don't know.  According to
>> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=849540>, Thunderbird has
>> supports it as of v. 38, so maybe it's coming to SeaMonkey.
> 
> I've tried changing the Server Settings / Authentication method of my
> Gmail account (in SeaMonkey) to "OAuth2", and the first time I've tried
> to open the Inbox I've been presented with a web form (in a new window)
> to log in.  Then I've been able to use my account from SeaMonkey just
> like before, even when I've set my Google account to not allow "less
> secure apps".

With OAuth2 "less secure apps" don't need to be allowed.

> This appears o.k. but then I've found I'm not able to do the same with
> my company account, which is also provided by Google but using a
> dedicated domain name (the company domain).  For some reason my username
> in the OAuth2 login form is always changed to <username>@gmail.com,
> rather than using <username>@<company_domain> which appears to break the
> whole thing.

For Thunderbird OAuth2 only works for the gmail.com and googlemail.com
domains.

> It's interesting that a colleague of mine using
> Thunderbird doesn't experience the same, and is now using OAuth2 for
> accessing his company account from withing Thunderbird.

Why don't you ask your colleague?
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