Question

I would like my application to programmatically update my user s gmail/google talk status on their behalf but I dont want to store their password because of the privacy risk

Does anyone know if/how it is possible to use Oauth or some other form of authentication that does not require password storage.

The Google data api docs I have seen support a range of services but dont seem to support Google Talk/Gmail beyond the Google Contacts api.

The Google Talk API seems to explicitly state that username and password are required but I could be mistaken

If it helps, my application is built on App Engine so I can at least use the built in user class to determine their username and email without storing their password but this doesnt seem to give me access to the user s status

Any tips or pointers to apps/code that seems to accomplish this would be helpful. Thanks!

Answer 1

This may not be what you are looking for but it might be a step in the right direction for you.
"the Google Contacts Data API now supports OAuth."
http://groups.google.com/group/oauth/browse_thread/thread/75ee6d973930c791

The post says that "This is our first step towards OAuth enabling all Google Data APIs." And it s quite old so maybe they ll have information about the Gmail API.

Hope it helps.

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