Re: does anyone use nmh's Google OAuth mechanism?

[Bob Carragher]

On Thu, 08 Sep 2022 06:29:32 -0700 David Levine <levinedl@acm.org> sez:

> Michael wrote:
>
> > David Levine <levinedl@acm.org> wrote:
> >     > If you use nmh's mhlogin(1) to login to Gmail, then you
> >     > use nmh's Google OAuth mechanism.  Please let me know
> >     > if you use it.
> >
> > I try do, but I think that I fell back to fetchmail on my
> > laptop.
>
> Glad to hear that.
>
> OAuth can also be used to send.  It would be enabled using these nmh
> send(1)/post(8) switches:
>     -saslmech xoauth2 -authservice gmail
>
> after logging in with mhlogin(1).
>
> David

I too use fetchmail(1).  (Too lazy to change.  B-)  But I use it
_just_ to fetch email from Gmail to my laptop, not to send.  I
never knew it had that capability ....

                        Bob