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Tapping into Your Gmail > Accessing Gmail with OAuth
Accessing Gmail with OAuth
In early 2010, Google announced OAuth access to IMAP and SMTP in Gmail. This was a significant announcement because it officially opened the door to “Gmail as a platform,” enabling third-party developers to build apps that can access your Gmail data without you needing to give them your username and password. This section won’t get into the particular nuances of how Xoauth, Google’s particular implementation of OAuth, works (see No, You Can’t Have My Password for a terse introduction to OAuth). Instead, it focuses on getting you up and running so that you can access your Gmail data, which involves just a few simple steps:
