Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients

[Roland Winkler]

On Tue, Aug 10 2021, Tim Cross wrote:
> I guess it would be possible - at least for the GNU Mailutils version
> (not the Emacs version as it does not support imap or encrypted
> POP3). However, I guess it would also involve adding a whole HTTP
> request library and an Oauth2 library to obtain authentication/refresh
> tokens. This is of course assuming that MS does allow an application
> ID to be used with IMAP (to be confirmed). 
>
> This also only helps with MS Office365/Outlook access - it doesn't
> help with Gmail or any other provider who transitions to nly support
> Oauth2.

I am not sure I understand the last statement.  My organizations only
allow its users to access their Office365 mail accounts via OAuth2 (and
multi-factor authentication).  However, the way this requirement is
implemented, a tool like davmail is able to perform the necessary steps
so that locally you can use any IMAP client you like.  What is different
here regarding what Gmail is aiming for?