[Users] Setting up OAuth2 for GMail

[Dustin Miller]

On Thu, 5 May 2022 09:53:55 -0400
Pierre Fortin <pf at pfortin.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 May 2022 12:31:45 +0600 Dustin Miller wrote:
> 
> >On 5/5/22, Pierre Fortin <pf at pfortin.com> wrote:  
> >>>Follow the instructions here:
> >>>https://support.google.com/googleapi/answer/6158849    
> >>
> >> Leave it to Google to put out instructions that barely match the
> >> screens...  ;p
> >>     
> >DM: Hi, Pierre. Ah, yes, fun, fun. Thanks for sharing your process.
> >But perhaps Google has already changed something that will make it
> >different next time... ;) From what I can tell, looks like you set
> >things up right in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for the 'In
> >Production' publishing status.  
> 
> Thanks Dustin...
> 
DM: You're welcome, Pierre. I can definitely understand that it can
feel challenging to disentangle oneself completely from Google once a
person has come to rely on one or more of their useful services. Hoping
you'll find reasonable solutions that work for you. I haven't made the
effort myself, but I have heard that it is possible to completely
'free' oneself. :) ---Dustin
> 
> Lately, I've been weighing the pros and cons of continuing with
> GMail... I've discontinued the use of most GMail accounts.  This
> abomination is pushing me away as I've been extricating myself from
> google's grip.  I no longer use their search engine; but I'm stuck
> with the Play Store and the Android backup feature. I'm awaiting 4
> 16TB SSDs, so I may be able to dump google soon...  :) 
> 
> I've been an SC/CM user for about 20 years, and have compiled it for
> most of those years; so that doesn't bother me.  Based on the
> previous OAuth2 threads here, and this initial experience; I'm
> leaning towards dumping GMail.
> 
> On the bright side; most spam I see is via gmail, so I'll leave the
> nine accounts as spam magnets they've become, and let google deal
> with that crap.
> 
> 
> >a) The development team is working on implementing a fix for this,
> >which will likely be eventually included in git and then a future
> >release.  
> 
> The CM developers have been great over the years... I feel sorry for
> them having to deal with OAuth2.  
> 
> Decision time...  the deadline is the end of May, so I'm likely done
> with google.
> 
> Thanks for responding.
> 
> Pierre
> 
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