gmail-oauth2-tools VS fdm

Shouldn't be _too_ hard to convert your scripts.

I ran into the same problem and one workspace disallows App passwords. You can simply get the OAuth token with a little python script and then use it as the password: https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools/blob/master/pyt...

(see for example https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter/issues/186)

I tried to keep dependencies low, and while developing that and testing it I came across sendgmail. sendgmail is a little more polished but has a lot more dependencies, it's also not really setup to be imported into a project and used like a package.

Integrated with OAuth2 and register an app with Google to get a client secret. This should clear that up but honestly it's a hassle to do, I had a similar script (posted my story in another comment) and I always thought of going through and redoing it to authenticate with OAuth but it just seemed like a hassle. I found this which should help. https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools/wiki/OAuth2DotPyRunThrough

Fetch https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools/blob/e3229155a4037267ce40f1a3a681f53221aa4d8d/python/oauth2.py Store as ~/.mutt/oauth2.py Make it executable

I wrote this to execute fdm on new messages, so my VPS can deliver email to its own local Dovecot instance and my home machine can fetch them with minimal delay - without otherwise being tightly coupled to my external email setup.

When I switched from GMail’s web client to a local client, I used fdm over POP to send everything to a local maildir. Then I set up a cronjob that calls fdm every five minutes (again, over POP) to check for new mail. Bear in mind that depending on your GMail settings, GMail’s copies of emails can be auto‐deleted upon POP download. If you still want to access email through the web or IMAP, make sure that’s set properly.

This actually seems to have maybe changed quite recently, however this mechanism seems inconvenient for users to use, requiring additional scripting (meaning, shelling out to a command), continually generate a new access token to use with fdm, on a per-account basis, hourly. Yuck.

I came across fdm, which is fast, lightweight, and simple to configure. It fetches mail. That's it. The config is literally a couple of lines for a single mailbox.