Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients

[Andrew Cohen]

>>>>> "RW" == Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org> writes:

    RW> On Tue, Aug 03 2021, Andrew Cohen wrote:
    >>>>>>> "RW" == Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
    >> But the truly hacky part---the information for refreshing the
    >> token is stored in an auth-source file, where the "secret" is a
    >> function that refreshes the token and returns the new credential.
    >> 
    >> Once set up it works pretty well (although it asks for the
    >> password for the auth-source file frequently---I haven't had time
    >> to learn how auth-source decides when a password is required so
    >> this should be easily fixable---its not frequent enough to really
    >> bother me and my emacs time is very limited these days).

    RW> As I said in another reply to this thread, I believe that the
    RW> problem with frequent password requests is due to the fact that
    RW> oauth2.el does not support `access_type=offline' upon
    RW> authentication.

No, this has nothing to do with oauth2---the automatic refreshing works
just fine. Its the auth-store that is asking for a password to read the
local plstore file (for some reason it caches the password for some
relatively short length of time, but then decides it needs the password
after a couple of hours).

Just to be really clear, all of the oauth2 stuff works automatically and
just fine (including for smtp for sending email).

    >> If you want to try it let me know and I'll try to walk you
    >> through the setup.

    RW> Thanks, I got this part working.  But I realized that davmail
    RW> mentioned elsewhere in this thread gives me, all in all, a
    RW> smoother work flow.

    >> diff --git a/lisp/gnus/nnimap.el b/lisp/gnus/nnimap.el
    >> 
    >> diff --git a/lisp/mail/smtpmail.el b/lisp/mail/smtpmail.el

    RW> I suggest to apply these steps to the emacs trunk, as one step
    RW> towards better oauth2 support.

Yes, I have been waiting for a good time to update my local emacs
repository so I can do a clean push. Not much time for emacs these
days. 

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