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An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that transparently adds OAuth 2.0 authentication for email clients that don't support this method. Keep legacy email clients working with Exchange Online, Gmail and other providers.

19 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2022-05-03 · latest 2025-12-10

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  1. …used with a “modern” email provider, regardless of whether the client supports OAuth 2.0 natively: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy . No need for your client to know about OAuth at all.
    comment by sir · 2025-12-10 · in Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e
  2. As a workaround, consider using https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy
    comment by WhyNotHugo · 2025-07-10 · in Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”
  3. …and setup takes forever [2]. - [1] https://github.com/runekaagaard/mcp-notmuch-sendmail - [2] https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy
    comment by runekaagaard · 2025-05-22 · in Gemini figured out my nephew’s name
  4. …stick with IMAP/POP/SMTP as-is. No need for your client to even know that OAuth exists. See here: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy
    comment by sir · 2025-05-10 · in Gmail to SQLite
  5. There's a gateway for proxying OAuth2 for the things which can't talk OAuth2: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy You install it and authenticate it with OAuth, then point your backup software to the proxy.
    comment by bayindirh · 2025-02-13 · in Imapsync
  6. …I maintain a proxy that transparently adds support for OAuth 2.0 support to IMAP/POP/SMTP clients ( https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy ), and for normal use it doesn’t need to know anything about which service it is connecting…
    comment by sir · 2024-04-21 · in Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
  7. …used with a “modern” email provider, regardless of whether the client supports OAuth 2.0 natively: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy . No need for your client to know about OAuth at all.
    comment by sir · 2024-01-19 · in Winding down Google Sync and Less Secure Apps support
  8. …can be used with a “modern” email provider, regardless of whether it supports OAuth 2.0 natively: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy . No need for your client to know about OAuth at all.
    comment by sir · 2023-12-13 · in Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
  9. …proxy of mine which transparently adds OAuth 2.0 support to any IMAP/POP/SMTP client: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy .
    comment by sir · 2023-10-13 · in Email and Git = <3
  10. …can be used with a “modern” email provider, regardless of whether it supports OAuth 2.0 natively: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy . No need for your client to know about OAuth at all.
    comment by sir · 2023-10-13 · in Email and Git = <3
  11. …client with an OAuth email provider, regardless of whether it supports OAuth 2.0 natively: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy . No need for your client to know about OAuth at all.
    comment by sir · 2023-08-09 · in A Gentle Introduction to IMAP
  12. https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy "Just works" I run it with mbsync at the command line. You do need a client id and some interaction with your O365 admin.
    comment by ggm · 2023-05-30 · in JMAP – a modern email open standard
  13. …to use those of one that’s already approved. See the readme section that explains this aspect: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy#oauth-20-clie...
    comment by sir · 2023-02-24 · in Gluon, a high-performance IMAP library
  14. …can be used with a “modern” email provider, regardless of whether it supports OAuth 2.0 natively: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy . No need for your client to know about OAuth at all.
    comment by sir · 2023-02-24 · in Gluon, a high-performance IMAP library
  15. …can be used with a “modern” email provider, regardless of whether it supports OAuth 2.0 natively: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy
    comment by sir · 2023-02-10 · in The Future of Thunderbird
  16. …no small part, by Microsoft/Exchange's stance). The ones I know about are: Email OAuth 2.0 Proxy < https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy >; mailctl < https://github.com/pdobsan/mailctl >; mutt_oauth2.py <…
    comment by ltratt · 2022-09-26 · in When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”
  17. …proxy of mine, which intercepts the non-OAuth IMAP/SMTP commands and adds OAuth in the background: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy/
    comment by sir · 2022-05-18 · in Oauth2 support for GMail
  18. …you can use this local proxy to continue using the “less secure” app without needing app passwords: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy
    comment by sir · 2022-05-03 · in Google's most ridiculous trick to force users into adding phone number