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Tobi823 / ffupdater

FFUpdater: Updater for privacy friendly browser
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater
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FairEmail is still supporting OAuth for Gmail #539

Closed kazushi3 closed 9 months ago

kazushi3 commented 9 months ago

In FFUpdater, when I open infomation of FairEmail, it says "This version does not support OAuth and therefore does not support Gmail.". But FairEmail on F-Droid says "Note that OAuth was not approved by Google, etc for the F-Droid build. For this you'll need to use the Play store version or the GitHub release.". I think FFUpdater uses GitHub build so this warning should be removed.

Tobi823 commented 9 months ago

That's strange. I was contacted by some users and the maintainer of FairEmail that FFUpdater breaks OAuth by updating existing FairEmail apps with the version of GitHub.

Tobi823 commented 9 months ago

Here is the link to the ticket https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater/issues/533

Tobi823 commented 9 months ago

OAuth access is available only for Play Store and Github releases because email providers permitted the use of OAuth for these releases only. The responsible for a release, for the F-Droid build this is the F-Droid organization, needs to ask for OAuth permissions, which mostly involves signing a contract with binding terms and conditions.

https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/FAQ.md#faq147

According to the documentation you are right - OAuth should work. But maybe something has changed and the documentation was not updated yet.

kazushi3 commented 9 months ago

FairEmail's readme.md says GitHub version supports OAuth too. I'm using FairEmail updated by FFUpdater but still connected to Gmail via OAuth.

I've checked #533. I think user did not understand FairEmail and maintainer doesn't understand FFUpdater. Google Play version's paied features (called Pro) may be broken by FFUpdater but OAuth is Okay.

(I wrote Japanese translation of FairEmail and FFUpdater. Not as author but I know both of apps.)

kazushi3 commented 9 months ago

Warning should be changed like this:

Tobi823 commented 9 months ago

Sounds good, thanks for the advice

Tobi823 commented 9 months ago

This will be part of the next release.

licaon-kter commented 3 months ago

App passwords work with Gmail in Fairemail from F-Droid, just that Google acts like an a$$hole.

Not easy, not hard: https://forum.f-droid.org/t/news-access-removal-of-less-secure-apps-in-google/17797/68