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Simon Dobson
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Simon Dobson's personal blog at simondobson.org covers programming and writing. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-07, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked in one comment on the Transmit Google Drive thread. The comment discusses Google and Microsoft disabling basic IMAP/SMTP auth in favour of OAuth2 app registration for email clients.
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What Hacker News says?
> Edit: Next logical step is auditing every IMAP client before you can connect it to Gmail. Ridiculous. Actually .... They're not that far away from that, if they're not already implementing it. Office365, and Google, if they haven't already have disabled basic Auth for IMAP/SMTP, and only supporting oauth2. Which requires a AppId/ClientSecret handed out out by registering your app with Microsoft/Google. It seems th…
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