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Comment on Ask HN: Any way to access gmail IMAP through openid/oauth?

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In general, OpenID/OAuth don't do well with non-browser clients and don't do non-HTTP protocols at all.

Yeah got that. This actually is for a web app as ironic as that sounds.

I wondered if IMAP could be authenticated using openid/oauth without having to make the user fork over their credentials.

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