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What's the point? Isn't OAuth all about 3-legged authentication scenarios? Why would it be useful for IMAP, particularly when the provider, Google in this case, already has your credentials.

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3rd party app providers no longer need to ask for your U/P but can use OAuth instead.

Ah, you mean 3rd party access to gmail via IMAPOauth. I forgot about services like threadsy that do just that.

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