Re: [Geary] Not able to log in a @gmail account with "Less secure apps" access disabled

[Christopher James Halse Rogers <chris cooperteam net>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Mario Sanchez Prada 
<mario endlessm com> wrote:
> On 20/03/15 18:45, Jim Nelson wrote:
> > >  I saw the blog post in [1] and got the feeling that GOA was
> > >  not going to happen, but that was probably a misinterpretation of 
> > > mine.
> >
> >  That post wasn't meant to indicate that we were not going to do 
> > either, it
> >  was just me grousing about the situation and proposing a solution.
> >
> >  What I was emphasizing was that our applications would not 
> > hard-code to one
> >  authentication library or another, as that would preclude (or make
> >  difficult) wide distribution of our software.
> Understood. Thanks anyway for clarifying it.
>
> I've also seen your reply about the GOA support bug in bugzilla 
> (thanks for
> that too), and replied there as well. However, it's still not clear 
> to me
> whether implementing support for GOA would be the way to fix the 
> problem
> with "less secure apps", so I'd appreciate if you had some time to 
> reply to
> that concern too, either there or in that bug.

GOA provides an OAuth2 token to clients; GOA support would indeed 
resolve the ‘less secure apps’ problem.

My branch on the UOA bug had much of the work required to support the 
XOAUTH2 SASL method, which is a requirement for GOA/UOA support. I 
guess other person on the UOA bug didn't end up with much more free 
time than me, so I might start hacking on it again.