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saslxoauth – an very duty SASL XOAuth plugin

A very simple Cyrus SASL2 client side plugin
for XOAuth that works with Mutt to login into
Gmail IMAP.

Installation/setup

• Install the dependencies
  • SASL (libsasl2-dev on Ubuntu)
  • libOAuth (liboauth-dev on Ubuntu)
• Build and install the plugin via make && sudo make install
• Go to Quick Run-Through with oauth2.py and download oauth2.py per their instructions.
• Follow the step Create and Authorize an OAuth Token
• Use the oauth_token and oauth_token_secret and add them into the config file ~/.xoauthrc:

# The last oauth_token output of xoauth.py
token = 4/8Um6T29C3ehUXnqqQYzqAqzsAKRK
# The last oauth_token_secret output of xoauth.py
token_secret = Eq2DySVk63bJegXlgW8ZfrQZ

• Configure mutt to use XOAUTH as the SASL auth mechanism. E.g., in your ~/.muttrc:

set imap_authenticators="XOAUTH"
set smtp_authenticators="XOAUTH"