Experimental Gmail IMAP interface using oAuth

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18 points·petewarden··7 comments

This looks kinda wrong to me: the "wiki" is on google sites. Not on google code as the rest of these kind of technical wikis are (ie. GWT, Android).

Also, they use yahoo groups.

Just seems odd somehow.

Kevin Marks dug this out originally: http://groups.google.com/group/webfinger/browse_thread/threa...

I'm guessing this is what etacts are using. I wonder why Google haven't made an official announcement?

Has anyone tried using this with the Ruby OAuth gem? (found here: http://github.com/pelle/oauth-plugin)

OAuth is quite cool, but the documentation and tutorials seem to be all over the place.

I need to update this tutorial (some things are outdated) http://www.manu-j.com/blog/add-google-oauth-ruby-on-rails-si... but i have successfully used google oauth with rails.

Any obvious use cases for this? (Gmail IMAP or federated login outside the web browser)

Research for their operating systems?

The main point is so you don't have to hand over your password to let programs access your email. Why would a service need your email messages? Maybe to do cool analytics like etacts, or do an improved contact import that prioritizes the contacts by how often you correspond with them.

One thing that particularly annoys me is when websites like LinkedIn and Facebook ask for your webmail password so they can suggest new contacts based on your email history. They promise they won't store your password, but it is shockingly insecure.

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