Will app passwords still be allowed or do they fall into the same category as LSA?
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en#app-passwords On Mon, Dec 16, 2019, at 6:45 PM, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 2:43 PM Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> > wrote: >> Dnia 16.12.2019 o godz. 21:43:45 Jody Belka pisze: >> > * Outlook 2016 and earlier with the G-Suite Sync for Microsoft Outlook >> > tool (Windows-only) support it >> >> By the way, a company I work for uses G Suite Sync and turned off IMAP >> access >> completely for their domain. In that case Outlook with G Suite Sync is the >> only way to access G Suite email with any email client (and I think there is >> absolutely no doubt that for professional use *any* email client - even >> many years old Outlook Express ;) - works better than Gmail's web >> interface). > > Consider doubt expressed. > >> However, the limitation to Outlook in this case is quite an obstacle. I >> always thought it would be nice to have such a tool as G Suite Sync for >> other email clients as well. The best would be something that acts as a >> proxy running on localhost; you connect to it the old fashioned way via >> IMAP/SMTP, and it translates the requests to Gmail's API (G Suite Sync does >> something like this, but on the local side there is proprietary Microsoft's >> MAPI instead of IMAP/SMTP). >> >> Taking into account the coming changes we are talking about in this thread, >> can we expect Google to release such a tool? It would be a great help to all >> email clients users and would keep G Suite email universally accessible >> without giving up on security. > > No, I wouldn't expect that at all. > > For one, Google already maintains internal systems for translating IMAP to > the internal APIs, why would they > attempt to duplicate that effort? Also, the challenge of mapping IMAP to > Gmail's mailstore model is complicated, > why have two different versions (or N versions given the long tail of > software updates). > > For two, Outlook is one of the most used email clients in the world, the rest > of the clients which > don't support (and aren't willing to add support for) OAuth are the long tail. > > For three, MAPI supports more than just email, it also supports calendar and > contacts, so that's one > stop shopping. > > If you wanted something, you'd probably want a proxy, something that speaks > enough IMAP to do LOGIN/AUTHENTICATE, then re-login to > Gmail with OAUTHBEARER, and then just be a pass through. We do something > similar for the reverse proxy for IMAP at Gmail, though again, > not really code that can be shared... though maybe someday someone will write > an Envoy module for that. You could probably write > something like that in a couple hundred lines of code. > > Brandon > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop >
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