Bug #16734

Gmail does not require OAuth

Added by cbrownstein 2019-05-20 04:55:44 . Updated 2019-06-19 12:07:46 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Target version:
Tails_3.14.1
Start date:
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
End-user documentation
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
Email Client
Deliverable for:

Description

https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/thunderbird/index.en.html

On that page it is stated that “It is impossible to connect to email providers that require the OAuth authentication mechanism such as GMail or Mail.ru”

However, Gmail does not require OAuth authentication and I can confirm it is possible to access Gmail with Thunderbird in Tails.

See: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en

I do not know if Mail.ru actually requires OAuth.

I propose removing Gmail as an example.

Subtasks

Related issues

Blocks Tails - Feature #15941: Core work 2018Q4 → 2019Q2: Technical writing Resolved 2018-09-11

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2019-05-23 07:51:11

  • Affected tool set to Email Client

I guess this might have something to do with our patches (Feature #6156).
@anonym might be able to shed some light on this issue :)

#2 Updated by anonym 2019-05-23 07:58:14

Indeed, our patches disable OAuth2 so it will work for services that allow other authentication methods (I have not ever seen any service offer only OAuth2). So the docs should be updated!

#3 Updated by cbrownstein 2019-05-23 17:19:39

  • Status changed from Confirmed to In Progress
  • QA Check changed from Dev Needed to Ready for QA

Here’s a branch:

https://0xacab.org/cbrownstein/tails/commits/doc/16734-gmail-oauth

anonym wrote:
> Indeed, our patches disable OAuth2 so it will work for services that allow other authentication methods (I have not ever seen any service offer only OAuth2).

In light of this, I removed the entire note instead of just the Gmail example.

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2019-06-02 14:42:59

  • Status changed from In Progress to Needs Validation

#5 Updated by sajolida 2019-06-03 17:37:49

  • Status changed from Needs Validation to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

Applied in changeset commit:tails|1924cb41a70da160d9a71dd8fff445ea5b59d0a0.

#6 Updated by sajolida 2019-06-03 17:37:55

  • Assignee deleted (sajolida)
  • Target version set to Tails_3.15
  • % Done changed from 100 to 0

Good catch!

#7 Updated by anonym 2019-06-19 12:07:46

  • Target version changed from Tails_3.15 to Tails_3.14.1

#8 Updated by sajolida 2019-07-09 17:07:32

  • blocks Feature #15941: Core work 2018Q4 → 2019Q2: Technical writing added