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OAuth token vs. application-specific password: any meaningful benefit?
I feel like this should be a duplicate, but I don't see it anywhere.
The question is pretty simple. When giving a mail client (say, Thunderbird) access to your e.g. Gmail account, you have the option ...
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Using a gmail oath2 token to access web email
I forgot my password to an old gmail account. I have tried the regular route of going through gmail password recovery: answering questions, it keeps looping back to the questions, so I think I'm ...
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Sending access tokens from server to client best practice
I'm trying to write an app that will let a user see multiple Gmail inboxes at one time. I am storing the refresh token for each account in my database.
However, I would like for almost all traffic to ...
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Security of GMail API full-access scope
Recently more and more online services are popping up to help manage the mail of Gmail, such as Boomerang, Gmelius and many others.
To work correctly they require a full access scope to the gmail api,...
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Reasons why there are no web based unified email clients (with OAuth2)?
There are plenty of mobile applications that you sign into with different accounts to retrieve email, contacts, and calendar (such as CloudMagic), and a couple desktop clients (such as Inky). Yet I ...
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