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**(111) Can you add OAuth authentication?**
OAuth authentication requires creating an online (Google, Microsoft, etc) app,
which would make authentication for many people dependent on one account, which is a bad idea.
(X)OAuth authentication, formerly available as *Select account* for Google accounts, requires creating an online (Google, Microsoft, etc) app,
which would make authentication for many people dependent on one (developer) account, which is a bad idea.
Google requires requesting special permission for the online app every year and has appeared to be unreliable in granting this permission.
When requested permission for FairEmail, the request was denied with the remark that send permission would be enough, right ...
Google requires requesting special permission for the online app and has appeared to be unreliable in granting this permission.
When requested permission for FairEmail, the request was denied with the remark that send permission would be enough, ... right.
An appeal was completely ignored, which is unfortunately typical for Google.
Also, Google requires a yearly security assessment which will cost between $15,000 and $75,000.
This is how you exclude independent developers ...
Outlook and Hotmail do not properly support OAuth for IMAP/SMTP connections.
[MSAL](https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-android) is supported for business accounts only
and OAuth requires embedding a client secret in the app.
and requires embedding a client secret in the app, which is not a good idea for an open source app.
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