On 2021-09-26, Tavis Ormandy <tav...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2021-09-26, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I'm trying to figure out how to use oauth2 for SMTP/IMAP (mostly SMTP) >> with Gmail [...] >> >> But, I get stuck when I get to the rather vague part of the >> instructions that say to go to >> https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials, >> create a project and download credentials. >> >> Google seems to require I that pre-register my project's domain (which >> I don't have) in order to generate credentials. Am I doing something >> wrong? > > Hmm - but the reason you want to do this is because you have a domain > where application specific passwords are disabled for policy reasons?
No, I don't have any domain at all. There is no "project", and I'm not actually creating an application -- but have to pretend that you are in order to use OAUTH2 with GMail. > If you don't have a domain, then you can do it the easy peasy way, > just generate an application specific password: That requires 2FA be enabled on the GMail account -- which is probably what I should do instead of wrestling with OAUTH2. -- Grant
