Re: Gmail OAuth2 in git send-email

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>, Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Gmail OAuth2 in git send-email
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 19:39:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YLmSd7ADvhdh33/O@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YLmGo8PZDAT90hj+@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> I agree that it wouldn't be worth "git send-email" registering for its
> own API key, mostly because registering for API keys with every email
> provider would be a distraction from what git send-email tries to do.
>
> On the other hand, I would mind a perl library or a commandline tool
> that git send-email calls having _its_ own API key.

Ahem --- I *wouldn't* mind a perl library or commandline tool showing
up that does this.  Sorry for the confusion.

>                                                      That would be
> helpful to other programs that want to send email as well, and it
> would help users who are not as patient as we are in trudging through
> the multi-step process required.  For example, it's nice that KMail,
> Apple's Mail.app, and so on have their own API keys instead of every
> user of those programs having to generate their own.

There's a sendgmail tool in
https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools.  It requires generating
your own API key but I suppose someone could package it up with an API
key for their package if they wish to.

Jonathan