On 03/13/2016 04:58 PM, Jonathan N. Little wrote: > Christian Riechers wrote: >> On 03/12/2016 10:40 PM, Jonathan N. Little wrote: >>> Ricardo Palomares Martínez wrote: >>>> Similar, but not exactly that reason. Google is promoting its own >>>> protocol for authentications, on the basis that the current scheme of >>>> login + password is flawed. It may or may not be true (I read it some >>>> time ago, and I don't really like it too much). The protocol is not >>>> closed (Google is, AFAIK, not asking for money for sites or services >>>> wanting to use it), so it is more like Google wants to be recognized >>>> for being the author of a critical shift in how services authenticate. >>> >>> What protocol? >> >> OAuth2 > > For web browser authorization. Again, for a mail client? Not a push for > their webmail portal?
Thunderbird has implemented OAuth2 authentication for Gmail IMAP and SMTP since v38. The benefit is that one doesn't need to jump through hoops anymore and allow 'less secure' apps for Gmail. I don't know about Seamonkey. > <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1039130> That post is more than a year old. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
