Re: Gmail OAuth2 in git send-email

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

I agree that it wouldn't be worth "git send-email" registering for its
own API key, mostly because registering for API keys with every email
provider would be a distraction from what git send-email tries to do.

On the other hand, I would mind a perl library or a commandline tool
that git send-email calls having _its_ own API key.

Ahem --- I *wouldn't* mind a perl library or commandline tool showing
up that does this.  Sorry for the confusion.

                                                     That would be
helpful to other programs that want to send email as well, and it
would help users who are not as patient as we are in trudging through
the multi-step process required.  For example, it's nice that KMail,
Apple's Mail.app, and so on have their own API keys instead of every
user of those programs having to generate their own.

There's a sendgmail tool in
https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools.  It requires generating
your own API key but I suppose someone could package it up with an API
key for their package if they wish to.

Jonathan