Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > I haven't tried yet, but I suspect using Emacs in my organization would
  > > be harder because, what GUID would I use?

  > Well, you could just use Thunderbird's. It's all right here:

  > 
https://github.com/mozilla/releases-comm-central/blob/master/mailnews/base/src/OAuth2Providers.jsm

  > You shouldn't though, because that could get you in trouble. While all
  > this stuff is essentially security theatre, good luck explaining that to
  > your IT security department...

It's possible that you're right.  But, because your statement is takes
a leap and doesn't describe the logical steps, it is hard to verify
that.

Would you like to help determine whether that approach is practical?
And, if not, why not?

For instance, why would the organization's IT security team care
whether he runs Thunderbird, or runs Emacs and tells some company it is
Thunderbird?

How would it even notice that he's using Emacs rather than Thunderbird?

Emacs can be thought of as a modified version of Thunderbird, right?

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