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		famousactress on Jan 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Glider, a better email client You mean other than SMTP or POP? Those are both definitely public APIs.

spindritf on Jan 27, 2012 | [–]

And you can set separate passwords for various applications if you enable two-factor authorization.

rcthompson on Jan 27, 2012 | [–]

Those also require your password, as far as I'm aware.

liuhenry on Jan 27, 2012 | [–]

Baudehlo is correct. Gmail provides a SASL extension called XOAuth that allows you to authenticate IMAP/SMTP with OAuth tokens.

rcthompson on Jan 28, 2012 | | [–]

Well, that's cool.

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